German crime statistics reopen migration debate
Germany’s Federal Criminal Police Office, the BKA, has published figures that allow a direct comparison between crime committed by migrants and crime committed by the native population.
The data came after an official request from Martin Hess, a Bundestag member from Alternative for Germany. He asked the government for figures on violent crimes committed by German citizens and by migrants, whose numbers in the country continue to grow under policies supported by the CDU/CSU bloc.
Hess was backed by several other Bundestag members, including Matthias Rentsch, Gottfried Curio, Bernd Baumann, Christopher Dreisler, Jochen Haug and others. Their request reflected growing frustration with what critics see as a long-standing silence from official institutions on migrant crime.
The MPs asked the federal government how many violent, property-related and sexual crimes had been recorded by federal police in the first half of 2025 at railway stations and on trains. They also requested data on drug offences, weapons offences, the sex and age of suspects, the ten most common nationalities among non-German suspects, knife attacks and year-on-year crime trends.
They also asked how the number of violent-crime suspects with asylum-seeker status had changed compared with the previous year, both in absolute numbers and in percentage terms.
The answer went further than even the opposition expected. The data also coincide with the one collected in Denmark.
No, Germany`s BKA (federal police) is also tracking the nationality of criminals in their statistics (PKS)since 2024:
They create a nice word “Tatverdächtigenbelastungszahl” (TVBZ).Foreign criminals suspects in correlation to German suspects. pic.twitter.com/wgD5ncRAev
— Mila (@Milatrud11) May 18, 2026
Migrant women recorded higher rates than German men
The BKA’s 2024 statistics show striking differences. Afghan citizens were suspected of rape almost 11 times more often than Germans. Algerians were suspected of robbery 109 times more often.
But the most politically sensitive finding concerns women.
According to the federal government’s response to Martin Hess, Syrian, Iraqi and Bulgarian women had a higher suspect rate for violent crimes than German men.
In practical terms, this means that a woman from Syria or Iraq living in Germany was statistically more likely to be suspected of robbery, assault or even homicide than an average German man.
These comparisons have been published for the first time. Previously, such direct comparisons were either not made publicly or were not presented in this way.
The federal government acknowledged in its response that the rise in crime among migrants was a “fully expected consequence of migration policy in recent years”. Officials pointed to the disproportionate number of young men among arrivals, as well as poverty and lack of prospects.
Police union warns integration has failed
Rainer Wendt, head of the police union, reacted bluntly.
“This leaves you stunned. We have failed at integration. If even women from these countries are statistically more dangerous than our men, then the problem is not gender. It is migration itself,” he said.
Wendt added that German citizens are now paying for past mistakes through rising street crime, rapes and robberies. In his view, the most alarming part is that even women from parts of the Middle East show a higher statistical tendency to break the law than local men.
Alternative for Germany is now demanding the repatriation of foreign criminals regardless of sex. The next move belongs to the federal government.
