Significantly more crimes committed by foreigners at Erfurt Central Station

There is great excitement in Erfurt: Not only are the AfD's election results increasing, but the number of crimes at the train station in the Thuringian capital is also skyrocketing. Foreigners are particularly likely to commit crimes.

Erfurt - The number of violent crimes, property crimes, damage to property and sexual crimes at Erfurt Central Station has increased significantly over the past five years . Property crimes rose by almost 90 percent, violent crimes by around 15 percent, as the Federal Ministry of the Interior announced in response to a query from AfD MP Martin Hess. Junge Freiheit has the answer. From 2019 to 2023, the proportion of foreign criminals rose from 17 to 39 percent.

JF excluded cases in which the nationality of the suspects was unclear or unknown. For certain crime categories, the number is significantly higher. Last year, almost 50 percent of all property crimes at Erfurt Central Station were committed by people without German citizenship.

In sexual crimes, the perpetrators are often non-German
Last year, the figure was 30 percent for violent crimes - and 73 percent for sexual crimes. While the police registered eight non-German sex offenders, only three Germans committed comparable crimes during the same period. In 2023, around 8.3 percent of Thuringia's residents did not have German citizenship.

In the first half of 2024, the percentage of foreign criminals remained high. About 43 percent of all property crimes, 33 percent of all violent crimes and 20 percent of sexual crimes were committed by people without a German passport.

AfD politician Hess called it a "scandal" that "train stations and trains have become crime hotspots" while politicians want to force citizens to switch to public transport. A "radical change of course" in migration policy is needed, as well as a stronger presence of the federal police and harsher punishment for violent offenders.

Source: Junge Freiheit