Anti-Semitic crimes increased sharply in the third quarter compared to the previous year. This emerges from a request from the left-wing faction in the Bundestag. Crimes since the beginning of the Middle East war are not yet recorded.
According to a report, there has been a significant increase in anti-Semitic crimes in Germany this year. So far, in the third quarter of 2023, 540 anti-Semitic crimes have been recorded by the police, significantly more than in previous quarters, according to a request from the left-wing faction in the Bundestag, from which the “Rheinische Post” quotes.
Significant increase
According to the report, the number was 379 in the first quarter of 2023 and 446 in the second quarter. In the same quarter of the previous year there were 306 anti-Semitic crimes. According to the newspaper, these are numbers provisionally recorded by the Federal Criminal Police Office without any subsequent reports.
According to the information, the final numbers of crimes are sometimes significantly higher than the initial reports. According to the report, among the 540 anti-Semitic crimes recorded in the third quarter of 2023, a total of 14 were violent crimes and 44 were propaganda crimes. With 450 crimes, the majority of these crimes were committed in the right-wing political spectrum.
Crimes since the Middle East war not recorded
“This is particularly frightening because the escalation of anti-Semitic violence and threats since October 7, 2023 have not yet been listed here,” said left-wing politician Petra Pau to the newspaper: “It is to be feared that the dangerous situation will worsen of Jews for the rest of the year.”
Every effort must now be made to ensure the protection and safety of Jews, Pau demanded: “It is not just since the pogrom in Israel that Jewish people and institutions in this country have repeatedly been the target of hatred and violence. This situation has changed has now become even more acute within a very short space of time.”