An ever-growing number of criminal offences are committed on trains and at railway stations in the UK and Germany, with migrants as perpetrators being overrepresented in most crimes.

Figures obtained by the German media organisation NiUS specifically show that about half of the 13,543 violent crimes at stations in the first half of this year – which is almost 27 per cent higher than in the same period just two years ago – were committed by foreign nationals.

Non-German suspects were particularly overrepresented in sexual crimes at train stations, 59 per cent of which were committed by individuals without German passports,

The European Conservative highlights.

London officials, on the other hand, appear keen to suggest that the statistical rise in Britain is largely superficial. British Transport Police have attributed the more than 50 per cent increase in violent attacks against women and girls on the country’s railways to a greater reporting of offences,

Reporting on British railway offences also lack information about the perpetrators, which is likely to add weight behind former immigration minister and Tory leadership contender Robert Jenrick’s campaign for migrant crime data to be published.

The Migration Observatory at Oxford University complained earlier this year that official data on crimes committed by foreign nationals is „very limited”.

The 50 per cent figure reported by The Times only covers violent attacks against women, although reports have also been flowing in over recent months of a range of other offences being committed on railways. A notable attack took place in February, when a Kurdish migrant shoved a stranger onto the tracks of the London Underground because he felt as though he’d been given a „dirty look”. The migrant has been found guilty of attempted murder.

Violent crime appears a regular occurrence at stations elsewhere in Europe, such as in France and Belgium – particularly in Brussels, The European Conservative notes.