{"id":6761,"date":"2017-05-02T09:20:23","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T08:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/?p=6761"},"modified":"2017-05-07T09:26:51","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T08:26:51","slug":"germany-migrant-crime-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/2017\/05\/02\/germany-migrant-crime-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Migrant Crime Spiked in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/soerenkern.com\/2017\/05\/02\/germany-migrant-crime-2016\/germany-migrant-crime\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6762\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6762\" src=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/germany-migrant-crime.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/germany-migrant-crime.jpg 600w, https:\/\/soerenkern.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/germany-migrant-crime-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>An official annual report about crime in Germany has revealed a rapidly deteriorating security situation in the country.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Germany: Migrant Crime Spiked in 2016<\/h3>\n<p>Soeren Kern | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/10304\/germany-migrants-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gatestone Institute<\/a> | May 2, 2017<\/p>\n<p>An official annual report about crime in Germany has revealed a rapidly deteriorating security situation in the country marked by a dramatic increase in violent crime, including murder, rape and sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>The report also shows a direct link between the growing lawlessness in Germany and Chancellor Angela Merkel\u2019s decision to allow in more than one million mostly male migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bka.de\/SharedDocs\/Kurzmeldungen\/DE\/Kurzmeldungen\/170424_VeroeffentlichungPKS2017.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">report<\/a> \u2014 Police Crime Statistics 2016 (<em>Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik, PKS<\/em>) \u2014 was compiled by the Federal Criminal Police Office (<em>Bundeskriminalamt, BKA<\/em>) and presented by Interior Minister Thomas de Maizi\u00e8re in Berlin on April 24.<\/p>\n<p>The number of non-German crime suspects (<em>nichtdeutsche Tatverd\u00e4chtige<\/em>) legally residing in Germany jumped to 616,230 in 2016, up from 555,820 in 2015 \u2014 an increase of 11% \u2014 according to the report. Although non-Germans make up approximately 10% of the overall German population, they accounted for 30.5% of all crime suspects in the country in 2016, up from 27.6% in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>In this year\u2019s report, the BKA created a separate subcategory called \u201cmigrants\u201d (<em>Zuwanderer<\/em>) which encompasses a combination of refugees, pending asylum seekers, failed asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>According to the BKA, the number of migrant crime suspects (<em>tatverd\u00e4chtiger Zuwanderer<\/em>) in Germany in 2016 jumped to 174,438 from 114,238 in 2015 \u2014 up 52.7%. Although \u201cmigrants\u201d made up less than 2% of the German population in 2016, they accounted for 8.6% of all crime suspects in the country \u2014 up from 5.7% in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatestoneinstitute.org\/10304\/germany-migrants-crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue Reading Here<\/a>\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An official annual report about crime in Germany has revealed a rapidly deteriorating security situation in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34,48],"tags":[179,21,195],"class_list":["post-6761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-islam-in-europe","tag-germany","tag-immigration","tag-migration-crisis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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