Arabs up to 56 times more criminal than Germans
Published July 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Foreign. New German police statistics show that young people with a foreign background commit crimes at a rate far exceeding that of the majority population. Young Algerians stand out the most – they are 56 times more criminally active than German youth. But in reality the figures are even more distorted because immigrants who have been granted citizenship are counted as "Germans".

The figures come from a new compilation of the Tatverdächtigenbelastungszahl (TVBZ), which has been published for the first time in the official German crime statistics.

The compilation shows the number of suspected perpetrators per 100,000 inhabitants in different groups and does not take into account violations of the Aliens Act, reports Remix News.

For German citizens across all age groups, the TVBZ is 1,878. Among Syrians, the figure is 8,236 and for Afghans, 8,753 – more than four times higher. But it is when you look at young people aged 14–18 that the differences become most extreme. In that group, Syrians are five times more likely to commit crimes than their German peers.

For Moroccan youth, the difference is 19 times, but most notable are the figures for young Algerians – who are suspected of crimes at a rate 56 times higher than for native German youth.

The figures for specific crime types confirm the pattern. In so-called street crime, which includes assault, robbery, sexual harassment and pickpocketing, German suspects have a TVBZ of 168. Among Syrians it is 1,291, and for Afghans 1,218 – almost eight times higher.

The statistics were published following a parliamentary question from AFD's domestic policy spokesman Martin Hess. He comments:

– This is the predictable result of a migration policy that has been a total failure for decades and which, as recently as 2015, completely lost control.

In a previous question, Hess has requested precisely this type of statistics broken down by nationality and age.

Despite the dramatic figures, there is reason to believe that the reality is even worse than the statistics show. German authorities do not register ethnic background – a suspect who is a German citizen but has roots in, for example, the Middle East or Africa is simply registered as “German”.

Examples from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia show that first names like "Mohammad" are common among gang rape suspects, even when they are German citizens. During the New Year's riots in Berlin, a list of names was leaked to the media, showing that a large proportion of the suspected citizens actually had foreign names.

A senior Berlin prosecutor has previously stated that up to three out of four clan members in Berlin are German citizens.

The AfD has therefore demanded that Germany start keeping statistics on citizens with a foreign background, similar to Denmark. The party believes that this is necessary to measure actual integration – even after several generations.

The statistics also undermine a common left-wing explanation – that the high crime rate among immigrants is simply because many of them are young men. The new figures show that even when comparing the exact same age group, crime rates are significantly higher among foreigners.