Mohammed, Hassan, and Ali—the Typical “German” New Year’s Eve Criminals
7th January 2025
As we reported, New Year’s Eve on the streets of major cities in Germany went by in the manner Germans have become accustomed to: young men wreaked havoc by launching fireworks in public areas, setting buildings ablaze, and attacking emergency services.
Though major news agencies failed to name the perpetrators, it was clear that, like in recent years, migrant men were primarily to blame. Rainer Wendt, the head of the German Police Trade Union (DpolG) said “there are areas where young, highly violent young men, many with migration backgrounds, have claimed control of the public space for themselves.”
According to information leaked to media outlet Nius.de, out of the 670 suspects named in the Berlin police files, 406 people have German citizenship, while 264 are foreigners. This means that 39.4% of the perpetrators were foreigners—mostly Turks, Syrians, and Afghans—which is a high representation in itself, seeing as the proportion of the foreign population in Berlin is 24%.
Delving deeper into the details, however, Nius.de revealed that a staggering 65% of the German perpetrators had non-German first names, and most of them were typically Arab or Muslim names—such as Mohammed, Hassan, Ali, and Yussuf. Taking that into account, the tally of foreigners and Germans with a migrant background comes to 80% at the least—meaning that people with a migrant background are overrepresented in the crime statistics.