Status: 05.11.2021 8:51 a.m.
According to a report, crime in Germany fell by 15 percent between 2005 and 2019. Property and property offenses in particular fell. The authorities are concerned about politically motivated crime from the right.
According to official figures, crime in Germany fell by 15 percent between 2005 and 2019. This is primarily influenced by the significant decline in property and property offenses, according to the federal government’s new “Periodic Security Report”, which is being presented today and which is available in advance to the newspapers of the Funke media group.
The number of cases has also decreased in the case of serious violent crime. The report also recorded an increase in foreign suspects between 2009 and 2019 from 21.1 to 34.6 percent.
More right-wing hate crime on the Internet
The authorities are worried about politically motivated crime from the right. According to the expert report, more than 20,000 criminal offenses have been registered annually since 2015. Right-wing hate crime on the Internet has also increased sharply. The proportion of anti-Semitically motivated crimes registered by the police has also “risen continuously”.
After the migration crisis in 2015, the number of investigations by the public prosecutor for anti-Semitic crimes “skyrocketed”, it said.
“One of the safest countries in the world”
According to the report, there is a low number of deliberate killings in Germany in an international comparison. “Germany is one of the safest countries in the world,” said Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) according to the newspapers of the Funke media group. “But security is an ongoing task for which we have to work hard every day.”