German Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke of “an explosion of violence” during a session of the Bundestag. This was in Germany’s lower house of parliament, in March, where he was asked about violence against women.
He didn’t mention Islamists. That’s verboten. The left doesn’t allow it.
The Stats
And then we must also address the fact that a considerable proportion of this violence comes from immigrant groups in the Federal Republic of Germany.” The facts from BKA statistics: The foreign share among criminal offenders rose from 29% in 2014 to 41.8% in 2024. For serious crimes like assault, rape, gang rape, and murder, the share of migrants is even higher. At the same time, over 60% of all deportation attempts fail.
According to a representative survey conducted by pollsters infratest dimap in late 2025, about 48% of citizens feel unsafe in public spaces such as parks, trains, and buses. In 2017, only 23% reported feeling that way. But will the feeling of safety in Germany increase again with a restrictive asylum policy?
In 2025, 48% of the people felt unsafe in public spaces up from 23%!
Merz continues to link violence and criminality with immigration. In October 2025, he said that his government had reduced the number of people seeking asylum in Germany by about 60%.
The parliamentary state secretary in the Federal Interior Ministry, Christoph de Vries (CDU), spoke of organized begging groups whose members were positioned in the same places each morning in his home city of Hamburg. Often these were people from Eastern European EU countries. They cannot be deported. There are intolerable conditions, de Vries said. “It cannot be that public space is taken up by the people on the margins of society so that normal citizens are too afraid to go there,” he argued.
Citizens are also fearful of an increase in serious crime, he said, noting that there had been a rise in organized crime, “often of foreign origin, which presents itself as ever more violent, openly using firearms, hand grenades, racketeering.”
They won’t mention Islamists. They’ll hint when they say violence against women is on the rise.
It’s not the crime in the cities?
“What most influences people’s subjective perception of safety in the cities is not serious crime, but rather the socially inadequate behavior of certain groups,” said Thorsten Wünschmann, who leads the department responsible for public order, the Ordnungsamt, in Hanau, a city near Frankfurt.
Examples of “socially inadequate behavior” include beggars, drug addicts, and groups of drunks and homeless people. Vacant buildings, neglect and litter on individual streets often negatively impact the entire neighborhood.
The Left is Furious
Remix reports that the left is furious with Merz for tying violence and mass immigration.
🇩🇪🔴German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under fire from the left for tying exploding violence with mass immigration.
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— Remix News & Views (@RMXnews) March 27, 2026