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Germany: Violent crime reaches 15-year high — report
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https://www.dw.com/en/germany-violent-crime-reaches-15-year-high-report/a-68758122
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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.
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.
Among the people without German nationality who were charged, 402,514 were described as refugees, asylum seekers and those who entered the country illegally.
Responding to the increase in violent crime, Herbert Reul, the Interior Minister for the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia said the mood in German society had changed.
Considering other reasons, Lower Saxony’s Interior Minister Daniela Behrens said: “It can be assumed that the increase in violent crime can no longer be explained solely by catch-up effects after the COVID-19 pandemic.”
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