Crime by migrants in Germany went up by 79% in 2015, with offences including sex assaults and murder on the rise

• Offences committed by migrants in Germany up by 92,000 in 2015
• In total, 208,344 offences committed by migrants in Germany last year
• While crimes by migrants rose 79% - number of migrants rose by 440%. 

• Crimes committed by migrants in Germany increased by 79 per cent in 2015, according to figures released by the Federal Criminal Office.

  Nearly one in five offences committed by migrants or refugees in Germany last year were violent crimes, such as assaults, robberies or 'threatening behaviour'.

  However, despite reports of sex mob attacks and public molestation cases involving asylum seekers across Germany, just one per cent of crimes committed by migrants were sex crimes. 

  And while the number of crimes by immigrants increased in comparison over 2014 to 2015 by 79 per cent, the number of refugees at the same time rose by 440 percent. 

  Notably, genuine asylum seekers from countries like Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan were substantially more law-abiding than economic refugees from the Balkan countries.

  This the third situational 'Crime in the context of immigration' report of the Federal Criminal Office (BKA) - which is classified for police and civil servants eyes only - but was leaked to best selling newspaper Bild.

  It covers crimes by immigrants from January to December last year, a time when over a million asylum seekers poured into Germany. The data comes from 13 of the 16 states which make up the Federal Republic.

  The number of criminal offences committed by asylum seekers rose to 208,344 - 92 000 more than in the previous year. But the BKA states; 'The vast majority of asylum seekers commit no crime'.

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