Germany: Train and Station Knife Attacks More Than Doubled in 2022
6th February 2023
The number of criminal offenses, including violent knife attacks and sexual assaults, rose considerably on trains and at train stations in Germany over the past year. Official government figures reveal that incidents involving knife attacks more than doubled compared to the previous year.
While the federal police registered 398,848 criminal offenses on trains and at train stations in 2022, an uptick of roughly 12% compared to the previous year, 336 knife attacks—82 on trains and 254 at train stations—were recorded, representing an increase of 102% year over year, the Hamburg-based newspaper Der Spiegel reports.
According to the statistics collected by the federal police last year, 71 suspects were investigated for violent crimes involving the use of knives on trains, 36 of whom were classified as “non-Germans”—just over 50%. In the previous year, that figure was six of 25, or 24%.
Of the nearly 400,000 criminal incidents, 14,155 were classified as assaults. There was a slight rise in assault cases involving “other dangerous tools” like baseball bats, at 97 (seven more than the previous year), and in assaults involving firearms, at 5, only two more than recorded in 2021.
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