40% of All Violent Crime Suspects in German Schools Are Foreigners, Over 2 Knife Attacks Per Day
26th July 2025
New data shows that 40 percent of all suspects identified in school violence in 2024 were not German citizens, with Syrians at the top of the charts.
In total, there were 4,254 foreign suspects and 7,309 suspects with German citizenship, the German government announced in response to a parliamentary inquiry from Alternative for Germany (AfD) MP Martin Hess.
Of the 11,558 suspects in total, 1,236 had Syrian passports, representing one in ten violent incidents, according to the data, which was provided to Welt newspaper.
In second place were Afghans, who represented 3.6 percent of all suspects.