Foreign nationals were responsible for nearly two-thirds of sexual offense arrests and more than 70 percent of homicide and robbery arrests in the Spanish region of Navarre over the past year, according to an internal report prepared by the Information Division of the Navarre Regional Police and accessed by El Español.
The 23-page document included data of all arrests for 2024 and up to Nov. 25 last year, including detailed charts and crime-by-crime breakdowns classifying detainees by nationality and country of birth, a level of detail not included in the annual public crime reports.
According to the report’s headline findings, foreigners accounted for 62.96 percent of arrests for sexual offenses, 73.3 percent of arrests for homicide and attempted homicide, and 71.77 percent of arrests for robbery-related crimes. By contrast, Spanish nationals represented between a quarter and just over a third of detainees in those categories.
According to El Español, the authors noted a downward trend in the number of Spaniards being arrested for such crimes, from 37.36 percent in 2024 to 33.73 percent in 2025, while the number of foreigners arrested has risen.
Morocco and Algeria are the countries of origin most frequently represented among foreign suspects. In robbery cases involving violence, more than half of the foreign suspects were Moroccan nationals, followed by Algerians. The report states that arrests of Moroccan nationals rose by 17.2 percent year on year, while arrests of Algerian nationals increased by 13.8 percent, from 80 in 2024 to 91 in 2025.
Morocco also topped the list as the country of origin with the most foreign suspects arrested for sexual offenses.
For those suspected of theft, 83.7 percent of detainees were foreign nationals.
This is despite the fact that Navarre, with a population of around 683,000, has a foreign population of around 13.2 percent.
The report’s publication led to criticism from María Chivite, the regional government’s president and a member of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s left-wing PSOE. She claimed that including the nationalities of offenders “does not contribute to prevention” and risks “very dangerous singling out.”
Navarre isn’t the only region to see a disproportionate number of foreign nationals involved in crime. In November last year, the Ertzaintza, the autonomous police force of Spain’s Basque Country, published its first-ever report on the origin of detainees, with the data showing that 64 percent are foreigners, despite foreigners only making up approximately 14.1 percent of the population.
For sexual assault, foreigners were responsible for 68 percent of all cases, and for robbery with force, it was 68.6 percent of cases.
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