The number of crimes in Germany is frightening. Public spaces have lost considerable security in the past year. Robbery offences increased by 2021.26 percent compared to 8, rape, sexual assault and sexual assault in particularly serious cases by 20.1 percent and dangerous and serious bodily injury by 18.2 percent.

What does this mean? Almost 12,000 rapes and sexual assaults, more than 38,000 robberies and more than 144,000 cases of dangerous and aggravated assault. This includes 8160 knife attacks, which, according to police crime statistics, took place last year. So you can understand that the police union speaks of a knife culture that is emerging in this country.

Federal Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) has described this increase in crimes as not surprising: The Corona restrictions are gone. A normal everyday life, in which people are free to travel, also brings more opportunities for criminals, according to Faeser.

The failure in recent years

That is certainly true. If no one is on the street, no one can be robbed, stabbed or raped. And yet the declaration is an indictment of poverty. Because ultimately it means: You are safer if you stay at home. So much for a normal everyday life in which people can travel freely and without fear.

In addition, the declaration testifies to the failure in recent years. If the development was so predictable, why could it not be prevented? Faeser now says more security forces are needed on public transport and in crime-ridden places. We could have come up with this earlier.

Instead, however, lawless spaces emerged in Germany, and debates about stabbers or the origin of the perpetrators were largely left to the AfD. The number of crimes is now the receipt for this looking away.