The number of politically motivated crimes and offences in Germany has been rising for the sixth consecutive year. According to the Ministry of the Interior, the most common causes in 2024 were disagreements during the European Parliament and Bundestag elections, as well as attitudes towards conflicts in the Middle East.
Sharp rise in crime
According to the Ministry of the Interior and the Federal Office of Criminal Investigation, in 2024, German police recorded around 84,000 politically motivated crimes and offences, 4,107 of which were violent. This is 40% more than in the previous year, 2023, and more than ever before.
Just over half of all recorded crimes were committed by people with nationalist political beliefs. This is 48% more than in 2023. People with radical left-wing views expressed their views in a criminal manner almost 10,000 times, 28% more than in 2023.
The number of crimes and offences motivated by religion rose by 29%: approximately 1,900 were recorded in 2024. Around 7,300 criminal cases – 42% more than before – were classified as related to “foreign ideology.” This is how offences related to political movements in other countries but not related to religion are designated in Germany.
The police also reported 6,236 crimes that they classified as anti-Semitic, 21% more than in 2023 and more than ever before. Of these, 48% were committed by the far right, and 31% were related to the influence of “foreign ideologies.”
The conflict between Israel and Palestine is mentioned as a motive in 7,328 crimes. Of these, 793 cases involved violence, most often during demonstrations and protests.
Knife attacks in Germany
According to German crime experts, attacks by migrants armed with knives pose a particular danger. The number of knife attacks in Germany is growing every year. Every day, there are three dozen attacks in the country. It is almost impossible to defend yourself against them.
A knife is often more dangerous than a firearm, says Dieter Walter, who trained elite police officers in Münster for many years.
Men between the ages of 18 and 30, single, uneducated and unemployed, cannot do without a knife, says criminologist Rudolf Egg, describing his clientele. “This group also predominates in other violent crimes,” he adds.
The proportion of attackers who do not have German citizenship is extremely high. In Berlin, for example, every second knife attack is committed by a migrant.
In Berlin, a police officer was stabbed in the neck, in Halle a local resident attacked three people with a knife, and in Bielefeld a man ran into a bar and stabbed people. According to police crime statistics, there are 79 knife attacks every day in Germany. “Young people carry knives in their pockets just like mobile phones,” criminal lawyer Udo Wetter told Bild.
In 2024, the police recorded a total of 29,014 knife attacks in Germany. The number of crimes involving serious and dangerous bodily harm rose by 10.8 per cent.
According to Manuel Osterman of the German Police Union, knives are the biggest problem in violent crime. Propaganda videos showing Islamic State killers beheading prisoners encourage Islamic radicals to use knives to carry out their acts.
Ten years ago, for example, Islamic State “training videos” appeared on the internet with detailed instructions on how to kill police officers with a knife.
German counterintelligence claims that there are about 27,000 Muslims with “Islamist potential” in a country of 80 million people. “Those who become radicalised and then carry out attacks are a nightmare for the security services. They are almost impossible to detect,” says MEP Sebastian Fiedler.
Islamist groups encircle Germany
One German counterintelligence report states that the sharp rise in extremist sentiment among European Muslims is directly linked to the activities of “the main recruitment base for jihadists, as well as a catalyst for efforts to recruit jihadists,” the transnational Islamist group Tablighi Jamaat (TJ). The Salafis compete with TJ. In Germany, they were extremely active in the public sphere until 2016.
Bearded men in baggy trousers handed out German translations of the Koran in German squares, preaching a radical version of Islam. The Salafists recruited new supporters at so-called Islamic seminars.
Salafists in Germany
Newly converted Muslims even spent their free time with Salafists, at picnics or football matches organised by them. In 2016, the German Interior Ministry banned the Salafist organisation “True Religion,” whose activists distributed copies of the Koran on the streets.
Radical Salafists are now virtually invisible on the streets of German cities, but they have not disappeared. “Most of their activities take place unnoticed by society,” says Kaan Orhon, a consultant at the Hayat Centre, which works to deradicalise Islamists.
“New supporters are increasingly being recruited through personal contacts, with communication taking place via WhatsApp and Telegram,” Orhon points out. This has made it more difficult for the police and special services to monitor Salafist activities.
“Of course, not every Salafi is automatically a terrorist, but every Islamist terrorist in Germany was a Salafi,” say employees of the German counter-intelligence agency BfV.
In December 2017, BfV head Hans-Georg Maassen said that there were 11,000 Salafists in Germany, calling it a “record high.” In 2013, according to German counterintelligence, there were 5,500 Salafists in the country, meaning their number had doubled in five years. Since then, the number of Islamists in Germany has not decreased, but after Maassen’s resignation, statistics on them are not available.
An even greater threat to the decaying civilisation of the Old World, including Germany, is posed by a huge European network of hundreds of mosques built with Turkish funds and under the unified control of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB). There are DITIB mosques and infrastructure in virtually every German city of any significance, from Berlin to Aachen. Today, such mosques can be found in almost every country of the EU. Prayers and sermons in these mosques are usually conducted in Turkish or in the dominant language of the particular community.
The largest of these mosques were opened by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan himself. Turkey also has a well-organised military force in Germany that can replace European police forces if necessary and maintain law and order if existing European institutions fail to fulfil their duties for any reason. We are talking about the pan-Turkic nationalist movement “Bozkurt” or “Grey Wolves.”
Grey Wolves
“A ramified network of mosques united under a single administration, together with well-armed nationalist militias [the Grey Wolves], is quite capable, in the context of the global geopolitical crisis in Europe, of claiming gradually concentrate power at all levels in at least individual countries, primarily in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, where DITIB and Turkish communities have extremely strong positions. This means that it could pose serious competition to the Anglo-Saxon or any other European protectorate project, should such a project ever be implemented,” note analysts.
There have long been calls in the German Bundestag to ban the Grey Wolves, which are banned in many countries and number 11,000 in Germany, but the German special services are opposed to such a decision. In November 2023, the Bundestag again called for a ban on this group, but the German special services refused to do so, citing certain legal obstacles.
Hans-Georg Maassen said in an interview with the Austrian television channel FPÖ TV that German politicians actively allow mass immigration because they “want a different population… The more diverse the population, the less it is able to express its position… The more politicians attract immigrants from other countries at their discretion and grant them citizenship, the more this affects election results. These migrants then vote differently from local residents. Mass immigration is foreign colonisation of our land.”
According to the former head of German counterintelligence, “countries such as Germany and Austria have the tools necessary to stop immigration, but they make a conscious choice not to do so.” This is fertile ground for the growth of German nationalist groups that are prepared to use violence to stop the influx of Islamists into the country.
The German Federal Criminal Police Office recently published its annual report, according to which the number of violent crimes with nationalist motives in Germany rose by more than 17% last year to 1,488.
“Last line of defence”
A few days ago, German police carried out an operation against a neo-Nazi group calling itself the “Last Defence Wave.” Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said that “it is particularly shocking that all those arrested were minors when the terrorist group was founded.”
Prosecutors said the group’s members “consider themselves the last line of defence of the German nation.”
In addition to a number of murders and arson attacks on migrant shelters, they painted swastikas and slogans such as “Foreigners out,” “Germany for Germans” and “Nazi territory” on the walls of houses, as well as a hand raised in a Nazi salute.
Der Spiegel magazine reported that members of the group actively recruited new members via Instagram, TikTok, Telegram and WhatsApp, setting a minimum age of 15. Investigators have discovered more than 70 chat groups across the country that they say are linked to the group.
By doing everything possible to prevent Germany’s most popular party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), which offers quite civilised measures to restrict migration and effectively combat sleeper cells of Islamists, from coming to power, Germany’s ruling elites are essentially sowing the seeds of their own destruction. Sooner or later, these seeds will sprout, and Germany will once again be engulfed in social catastrophe.
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Erik Kelly for Head-Post.com
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