{"id":5507,"date":"2026-04-18T06:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/5507\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T06:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:56:15","slug":"report-politically-motivated-crime-in-germany-hits-new-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/5507\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Politically Motivated Crime in Germany Hits New High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamtimes.com\/en\/news\/1275314\/report-politically-motivated-crime-in-germany-hits-new-high\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/n01275314-b.jpg\" alt=\"Report: Politically Motivated Crime in Germany Hits New High\" title=\"Report: Politically Motivated Crime in Germany Hits New High\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Islam Times &#8211; Politically motivated crime in Germany reached a new high last year, press reports said Friday.Authorities recorded a total of 85,837 politically motivated crimes in 2025, up 2% from 2024 \u2013 making it the highest figure since the joint federal-state survey began in 2001.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2015 alone, the number of recorded offenses has more than doubled, the daily Suddeutsche Zeitung reported, citing documents from the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA).<\/p>\n<p>According to the figures, crimes committed by the far-right are by far the biggest problem in Germany with 42,544 offenses committed in 2025.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nThe second-highest number of cases, at 13,490 offenses, was recorded in the far-left political camp.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators attributed the high number of politically motivated crimes, among other things, to the early federal election in February 2025 and the many related offenses against political opponents.<\/p>\n<p>However, they also noted that numerous international crises, such as the West Asia conflict, have had an impact on Germany.<\/p>\n<p>In approximately 6,886 cases, the police assumed a foreign ideological motive, and in 1,983 cases, a religious motive.<\/p>\n<p>In about 20,934 instances, however, the cases could not be precisely linked to a specific motive.&#13;\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times &#8211; Politically motivated crime in Germany reached a new high last year, press reports said Friday.Authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[189,23,2358,5,5580,5579,196,2353,5582,5578,2022,5577,4449,5581,35,922,5583,2354,913],"class_list":{"0":"post-5507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-a","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-friday","11":"tag-germany","12":"tag-high","13":"tag-hits","14":"tag-in","15":"tag-islam","16":"tag-last","17":"tag-motivated","18":"tag-new","19":"tag-politically","20":"tag-press","21":"tag-reached","22":"tag-report","23":"tag-reports","24":"tag-said","25":"tag-times","26":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}