Migrants Behind Nearly Three Million Crimes Shake Germany

Since former Chancellor Angela Merkel opened Europe’s doors to mass migration in 2015, migrants residing in Germany have committed at least 2.8 million crimes, according to police statistics. The official data shed light on the shocking scale of migrant-related crime.

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Responding to a parliamentary question from the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in the Bundestag, the government has disclosed official Police Crime Statistics demonstrating that migrants are overrepresented in criminality. Migrant crime has flooded Germany.

Police statistics paint a shocking picture of migrant crime (Photo: AFP)

According to the NIUS news outlet,

a total of 2,802,915 criminal cases involved an immigrant in Germany from when Merkel opened the borders in 2015 to 2024.

When including immigration offences, this figure rises to over 5.1 million crimes.

The true scale of immigration’s impact on crime in Germany is likely to be much greater, however, given that the statistics do not include permanent residents or migrants who have obtained German citizenship. Nevertheless, the stats revealed that

the number of violent crimes committed by immigrants has risen sharply over the decade, with 12,512 being committed in 2015 to 26,329 in 2024. In total, 218,247 cases were recorded, meaning that immigrants accounted for around 33.8 per cent of violent crimes, despite immigrants only accounting for around 20 percent of the population.

According to NIUS, Afghans, Iraqis, and Syrians were among the most likely immigrant groups to commit violent crimes.

When broken down by category, since 2015 immigrants

  • immigrants were recorded as committing 11,098 sexual crimes, including rape and sexual assault;
  • immigrants accounted for nearly 40,000 robberies;
  • and 163,625 cases of dangerous or serious bodily harm.

The most prevalent offences committed by immigrants since 2015 were thefts (764,940) and shoplifting (506,034).

Immigrants also appear to commit far more crimes against native Germans than the reverse. Figures from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) showed that in 2022, there were 47,923 German victims of crimes in which the suspect was an immigrant, compared to 12,061 cases in which a German was suspected of a crime against an immigrant.

In addition to regular crimes, Germany has also experienced a raft of terror attacks involving migrants over the past year, including attacks in Mannheim, Solingen, Magdeburg, Aschaffenburg, and Munich – as highlighted by the Breitbart news portal.

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