The incidence of crimes committed by immigrants in Germany has been skyrocketing since the 2015 migration wave.

The German state of North Rhine-Westphalia has seen an increase of nearly fifty per cent in knife crimes. Young men are over-represented among both suspected perpetrators and the victims, the Catholic news portal Kath.net reported.

According to police crime statistics, in 2022 there were 4,191 instances in which a knife was used, rising to 6,221 in 2023. One in three suspects was under 21, nearly 87 per cent were male and almost half of the suspects, 47.4 per cent, did not have a German passport.

Young men are also over-represented among the victims. One third of the 8036 victims registered were under 21 years of age and more than three quarters (76.5 per cent) of them are male. 38.3 per cent did not possess a German passport.

In terms of the crime statistics, these crimes are grouped together as „knife offences with victims”, and include crime categories such as murder, manslaughter, assault, threatening and resisting – in short any incident involving a knife.

But a skyrocketing of knife attacks has been seen across Germany, with more than two-thirds of those registered being committed by migrant individuals. The most recent brutal attack in Solingen left at least three people dead and eight seriously injured. At a festival in the main square of the northern Rhine-Westphalian city, a man apparently indiscriminately attacked revelers with a knife.

As Magyar Nemzet reported, German conservative politician and anti-Islam activist Michael Sturzenberger was recently stabbed to death during a public appearance in Mannheim, Baden-Wurttemberg. The attacker, while praising Allah, injured several people, among them stabbing in the neck a police officer, who later died of his injuries.