Alarming numbers: Sex crimes in Berlin rise dramatically!

Alarming numbers: Sex crimes in Berlin rise dramatically!

Berlin, Deutschland - Berlin experiences an alarming increase in sexual crimes, as the latest crime statistics show. In 2024, a total of 7,475 crimes against sexual self -determination were registered in the capital, which means more than 20 incidents per day. The numbers for rape are particularly frightening: over two acts a day. This shocking information comes from a response from the Senate Administration to a parliamentary request from the parliamentary parliamentary deputy Antonin Brousek, which was made as the first public by the Berliner Zeitung, such as Jungfreiheit.de reported.

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A striking characteristic of this statistics is the majority of foreign suspects. Of the total of 4,590 suspects, 1,764 (38.4 percent) were not German citizens. Especially in severe cases such as group rapes, 75 percent of the perpetrators of foreign origin are, while in sexual assault on defenseless people, every second perpetrator was not a German. In the past five years, the number of sexual crimes in Berlin has risen by 79 percent, which was 4,181 cases in 2018, reports OE24.at .

also shows that the number of victims is continuously increasing. In 2024, a total of 5,860 people affected were registered, including a worrying increase of victims in childhood and adolescence. The proportion of perpetrators without a German passport remains not insignificant here; 190 (38.1 percent) had no German passport among the 498 people who were determined due to insults on a sexual basis. This reality raises many questions to which the responsible authorities have so far not been able to provide any conclusive answers.