“Cityscape” debate: Majority of women do not feel safe

According to a survey, a majority of women do not feel safe in public spaces in Germany. In the survey by the opinion research institute Civey on behalf of the Funke media group, 55 percent of the women surveyed said they did not feel safe in any of the public places available. These included the street, public transport and parks. Clubs and train stations performed worst – only 14 percent of women said they felt safe there.

Of all respondents, including men, almost one in two (49 percent) said they did not feel safe in any of the public places mentioned.

For what Civey said was a representative survey, the opinion research institute surveyed 5,000 people aged 18 and over online between October 23rd and 27th.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz (CDU) recently sparked a discussion about public safety and migration. He initially said that the federal government was correcting previous failures in migration policy and making progress, “but of course we still have this problem in the cityscape, and that is why the Federal Minister of the Interior is now in the process of enabling and carrying out returns on a very large scale.”

When asked later, the Chancellor said: “Ask your daughters what I could have meant by that. I suspect you’ll get a pretty clear and precise answer.” Last Wednesday, Merz specified that problems would be caused by migrants who did not have permanent residence status, who did not work and who did not adhere to the rules in force in Germany.