Crime
Germany
Germany: Violent crime reaches 15-year high — report
Nik Martin
04/06/2024April 6, 2024
Germany recorded more than 214,000 criminal acts of violence last year, according to official police statistics. Overall crime also rose.
https://p.dw.com/p/4eV7y
Copy link
Germany saw a 5.5% rise in crimes recorded last yearImage: Sven Kaeuler/dpa/picture alliance
Germany recorded a large rise in violent
crime in 2023, the first year without pandemic restrictions, police statistics published Saturday showed.
Welt am Sonntag, which gained exclusive access to the data, said
violent crime climbed 8.6%, to 214,099 cases — a 15-year high.
The newspaper said there was a nearly 7% increase in cases of dangerous and serious bodily harm, with 154,541 cases recorded — the highest number ever.
Cases of intentional simple bodily harm increased by 7.4% to 429,157.
More crime overall; Berlin is least safe state
Overall, the number of crimes recorded in Germany rose to 5.94 million last year, an increase of 5.5% over 2023 and 9.3% higher than in 2019, before the pandemic.
The number of suspects arrested rose by 7.3% to 2.246 million and 41.3% of them did not have a German passport.
Among the people without German nationality who were charged, 402,514 were described as refugees, asylum seekers and those who
entered the country illegally.