New crime statistics are out in Germany for 2024, and they make for sobering reading, with foreigners, vastly overrepresented, as in previous years. Some of the data is especially concerning, with homicides and manslaughter cases jumping sharply in Berlin.
In Berlin, there were a total of 539,049 criminal offenses, a jump of 0.4 percent from 2023, equaling 2,352 more crimes than last year. Excluding immigration-related crimes, 43.9 percent of all crimes were committed by foreigners, which is a slight increase from 43.2 percent in 2023. There were a total of 143,534 suspects, which was an increase of 2.1 percent compared to last year.
Overall, Berlin features a low rate of cases solved compared to other major cities, with only 45.5 percent of cases solved, which was the same as in 2023.
Notably, the statistics showed a sharp increase in murder and manslaughter cases, jumping over 50 percent compared to 2023. Last year, there were 117 such cases, while in 2023, there were 77. There were also more assaults and basement break-ins, but fewer thefts, knife attacks, and drug offenses.
Benjamin Jendro, spokesman for the Berlin police union, appeared on Welt to discuss the statistics, saying:
“I believe that the figures are nevertheless worrying and also a warning signal. Of course, we can exclude the offenses that violate immigration law. As a rule, they cannot commit German offenses. Nevertheless, we are talking about (foreigners involved in) more than 43 percent of cases. This continues to rise. This is disproportionate to the total population in our city,” he said.
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"Gold help me."
A thief stole a young German woman's phone and then tells her, "in a mixture of English and German, that he would only give it to me if I had sex with him."
It all happened in Berlin's famed Görlitzer Park, where migrants gang raped a woman last year. pic.twitter.com/wt0j674bji
“What should not be ignored is that 30 percent of foreign suspects are not registered in Berlin. We are talking about traveling offenders, possibly also immigrants who are registered in other federal states. This is a phenomenon that we have been observing for a few years now, especially with mass offenses. With all these offenses, every crime is one too many, we are talking about more than one-third, more than 200,000 are theft offenses. We are talking about bicycle theft, pickpocketing, store theft and burglary,” Jendro added.
He also stated that there are communities of traveling gangs operating in Europe, which raises questions about the free movement of foreigners in the EU in general, saying: “It cannot be that Poles, Bulgarians, Serbs, whatever, come to Germany, make a killing here and leave the country again.”
Of course, the other factor is that many of the foreigners committing offenses are no longer foreigners, but have been given German citizenship. When the arrests were reviewed, for example, on New Year’s, the offenders’ names gave the true picture of who is committing offenses, with over 80 percent of the names of a foreign origin. Many of the clan groups who commit murders and partake in other serious crimes are also German citizens, and every time they commit a crime, it is listed as German citizen.
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Germany's Green Party is calling for "women-only" train cars in Berlin due to soaring sexual assaults.
In February, Iranian migrant Moshen K. raped a 63-year-old woman on the U3 train line, sparking outrage.
Since 2013, sexual violence crimes have jumped 260% in Berlin. pic.twitter.com/Xunuj84hpu
Youth suspects and youth gang violence also jumped higher, with youth gang violence seeing an increase of 17.2 percent. Nearly one in five suspects, 18.1 percent, were under the age of 21.
“So we have to say that for a few years now we have seen a rise in youth group violence and also in suspects under the age of 21; there are now 25,000, and 5,000 are under 14 alone,” said Jendro. “That means we’re talking about children, those numbers are going up again. We’ve had a wave before, we’ve been better in the past, and now it’s spilling over again. That also fits into the general social picture. We have a lot more severe offenses. If the figures are not so high, we are talking about acts of violence, robbery and assault. Knife offenses have been relatively stable, but are at a very high level in Berlin.”
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The data also shows police are being targeted more often, with 10,584 police officers ending up victims of violent crimes in 2024. This equals 981 officers, resulting in 10.2 percent more such cases than in 2023.
Other cities have also released data, such as Frankfurt, which saw a slight 1.5 percent decrease in crime. There, excluding immigration offenses, 57.2 percent of all crimes are committed by foreigners.
Despite the drop, murder and manslaughter rose to a record high when data is compared over the last 10 years. There were 120 cases in 2024, while only 63 were seen in 2023. There were also 1,000 more cases of assault.
