Statistics of the police: Preliminary evaluation: fewer attacks on refugees

In the first half of 2025, according to a preliminary evaluation of the police, there were less crimes addressed to asylum seekers or recognized refugees than in the same period last year. However, experience has shown that the numbers are likely to increase, since some of these actions are known to the police with delay or the motive will only become clear later. The overview was created at the request of the left faction and is available to the German Press Agency. The faction assumes that there are a large number of unreported cases in these offenses because many deeds are not displayed.

According to this, the 648 crimes against asylum seekers and refugees who were committed to refugees outside of accommodation for refugees in the first six months of this year are mainly about cases of property damage, insult, incitement. In several cases, it was also about the use of indicators of unconstitutional organizations or violent offenses.

In the first half of 2024, the police counted 1,236 crimes against asylum seekers and refugees outside of accommodations.

Racist hostility is part of everyday life

The decline is not a reason for the all -clear, says Clara Bünger, domestic politician of the left. Racist hostility, threat and physical attacks were still part of the everyday life of people who were looking for protection in Germany. The fact that politically motivated crimes were normal for refugees in Germany should also be “the consequence of a policy that declares refugees a problem instead of doing something against housing, poverty, over -indebted municipalities and the decaying infrastructure”.

Asylum questions were controversial in the Bundestag both in the first half of 2024 and in the first half of this year. In February 2024, a law of the traffic light government came into force, which, among other things, expanded the possibilities for deportation and exit custody. In the Bundestag election campaign 2025 and after the swearing-in of the new black and red federal government, the focus was on the rejections of asylum seekers, which are now ordered.

According to the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF), 61,336 people submitted an application for protection in Germany for the first time in the first half of this year. That is almost 50 percent less than in the corresponding period of the previous year. In addition to the gradually introduced stationary controls at all German land borders, measures from Balkan countries should also have contributed to the reduction of irregular migration to this development. Another factor is the changed location in Syria, where long-term power holders Bashar al-Assad had been overthrown in December.

Mobilize right parties and neo-Nazi groups

In connection with the topic of immigration or asylum, according to the Federal Government, a total of seven rallies nationwide were known in the second quarter of this year, which were carried out or dominated by right -wing extremists.

Two of them were protests in Bavaria, which were said to be organized by the AfD. The party is currently being observed by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution as a right -wing extremist suspicion. The small party Freie Sachsen mobilized around 430 and around 350 demonstrators in Heidenau and Johanngeorgenstadt. According to the Federal Government, there were fewer participants at three rallies that organized neo-Nazi groups in North Rhine-Westphalia and Magdeburg.