Violent crime reaches record high in Germany, foreigners responsible for this much of it

It is getting harder to ignore the outsized role foreigners play in Europe's crime crisis, as the latest crime data reveals

By Remix News Staff
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Remix News has long covered the role of rising violent crime in Europe and the outsized role that foreigners play in this trend. As much as one side of the political spectrum attempts to downplay or hide the issue, the crime statistics continuously offer a glaring contradiction to the propaganda around diversity and mass immigration.

In 2024, violent crime reached a record high in Germany, with 217,277 cases of violent crimes being recorded by the Police Crime Statistics (PKS), including 15,741 knife attacks and 29,014 cases in total involving a crime where a knife was used.

The PKS clearly states this is due to the rising proportion of “non-German” suspects. These foreigners, suspects without a German passport, account for 39 percent of cases, according to Welt.

That means they are responsible for 85,012 cases of violent crime, an increase of 7.4 percent compared to 2023.

The data doesn’t tell the whole story

It must be noted that this data vastly undercounts the number of foreigners committing crimes, including the rate of Germans with a migration background, which is not counted at all in the statistics.

For one, anyone with dual passport status is immediately counted as a “German” in the data and not a “foreigner.” That means a citizen with German and Turkish passports is simply listed as “German” when a crime is committed. This is no small number, amounting to approximately 3 million people in Germany, and this group may account for a substantial share of criminality in the country.

Furthermore, foreigners who received German citizenship or who were born to foreign parents are also listed as “German” in the crime statistics. Often, in order to find the true extent of how many foreigners are committing crimes, political parties like the Alternative for Germany (AfD) will request the first names of s suspects. In cases involving gang rape, this often reveals that approximately 75 percent of all suspects are committing gang rape, a far higher number than the official statistics show.

Breaking down the data

Overall, violent crime is up 1.5 percent compared to 2023, and this increase in lawlessness all happened under the oversight of far-left Interior Minister Nancy Faeser of the Social Democrats (SPD).

Within individual categories, the statistics tell a bitter story. There was a significant rise in cases involving rapes, sexual assaults, and serious assaults, with these cases rising to 13,320, a 9.3 percent increase in just one year.

For dangerous and bodily harm, there were 158,177 cases, which was a 2.4 percent increase. This category accounts for the greatest share of violent crimes.

In terms of murders, manslaughter and euthanasia cases, there were 2,303 such cases last year, an increase of 0.9 percent.

Politicians and top law enforcement officials have no real answer for these statistics, as is evidenced by the same statements released year after year.

Last year, in North Rheine Westphalia, long-time Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU)”found the data so dangerous that he took matters into his own hands in advance: a few days ago he announced the development in a press conference, recommended countermeasures and explained mitigating circumstances,” as reported in a Welt article from Till R. Stoldt about the topic of rising foreign criminality.

As Stoldt noted:

The numbers rose particularly strongly among Tunisians (plus 40 percent), Syrians (plus 21), and Moroccans (plus 16). These increases cannot be explained by appropriate immigration from these countries. But then what? Reul did not provide the answer any more than one of his counterparts. Last year, with regard to clan crime, he himself admitted that the search had to look more at national or cultural groups of perpetrators like the Syrians. Have the investigators still not started? And if so: where are the results?

Reul signals that he has relentlessly mentioned the extent of foreign crime and the connection between immigration and crime. No doubt: it is more offensive than many others. But he did not name the true extent of foreign crime – and the same applies here: just as little as any other interior minister of the republic.

Reul is at it again this year, with the same empty phrases, telling Welt in response to the latest crime stasitics: “What doesn’t work elsewhere—education, schools, integration—ultimately ends up with the police. That also means the statistics reveal the state of our society,” 

Meanwhile, those who dare to complain about these trends are increasingly facing criminal court trials and other forms of intimidation, including police raids on their homes.

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