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  • 2019-05-06 (xsd:date)
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  • offences against sexual self-determination and acts of brutality/crimes against personal freedom. !function(e (en)
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  • In mid-June 2018, US president Donald Trump tweeted that the crime rate in Germany rose by more than ten percent because of the immigrants who were allowed into the country in recent years. Is this just another speculative Trump-Tweet or a disconcerting development? Since the beginning of 2017, the Federal Office for Migrants and Refugees (German acronym: BAMF) publishes statistics on how many people are seeking asylum in Germany. It also describes the development from 2014 to 2018. The highest rise happened 2015 with an increase of almost 373% in comparison to the year before. Since then, the number of asylum-seeking people has decreased continuously. The decrease from 2017 to 2018 was about 11.8%. Last year, only 164,693 people sought asylum in Germany which is 31% less than 2014 – the year before the sudden increase in numbers. This factcheck will only focus on the years 2014 to 2018 because Donald Trump probably refers to this period. The German Federal Office of Criminal Investigation (BKA) releases an anual report on the status of crime in Germany in conjuction with immigration. This report shows not only the overall crime rate but also the rate of various types of crime. The numbers used in this report are from the police crime statistic (PKS), a well known source and the most-quoted crime statistic in Germany. The PKS ist also published by the BKA. Trump has only tweeted about crime" and didn’t mention any specific types of crime. Therefore (en)
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