In Berlin, sexual crimes soared last year, according to local government data.
Authorities revealed that data gathered from a previously unpublished Berlin State government report found that a total of 7,475 crimes occurred in 2024, or an average of more than 20 a day, an increase of 79 per cent on 2023.
Foreign nationals were disproportionally implicated in such crimes, with some 38 per cent of all recorded incidents believed to have been perpetrated by a non-German national. That compared to the city’s foreign population of 27.5 per cent.
The percentage of suspected foreign perpetrators was higher in some areas. Of the two rapes on average that took place in the city each day, half were suspected to have been committed by a foreign national.
The data implied 75 per cent of all cases of serious sexual coercion, as well as group sexual coercion, were also believed to have beenn committed by non-Germans.
For cases of sexual assault on those deemed too vulnerable to be able to resist, half of all incidents were reportedly committed by foreign individuals.
Antonin Brousek, a former judge turned-Berlin State representative who penned the report, was also said to have claimed in the previously unpublished document that many of these crimes would have been avoided entirely if German immigration law was “properly enforced”.
“A large proportion of the crimes could possibly have been avoided if only those who were authorized to do so were in Berlin,” the official said, according to a February 3 report by Bild.
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