As Germany contends with a faltering economy, soaring prices, rising unemployment, intensifying political violence, and mounting geopolitical instability, it also faces an alarming surge in knife crime—an epidemic fueled by decades of failed leadership, reckless, short-sighted policies, and unchecked mass immigration from countries with alien cultures.
In North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany’s most populous state with over 18 million residents, knife crime has surged dramatically.
Citing police data, State Interior Minister Herbert Reul, a member of the liberal globalist Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party, reported that 2023 saw 7,295 knife-related crimes—a 20.7% increase from the previous year, which had already marked a 44% rise from the year before.
What’s more alarming? Despite making up 16.1% of North-Rhine Westphalia’s population, foreigners made up nearly half (47.6%) of the suspects.
The police data, meanwhile, revealed that native Germans bear the brunt of the knife-related violence, accounting for 60.1% of the victims.
However, these statistics do not tell the full story. German authorities do not track the foreign backgrounds of newly naturalized German citizens, which allows them to downplay the growing crime rates and their connection to mass migration.
State Interior Minister Herbert Reul, despite holding office for years, now claims he’ll take action to curb the rise of knife attacks.
“I hope that we will see the first positive effects here in the coming year and that this knife violence will be curbed. Otherwise, we will have to make adjustments,” the CDU politician vaguely stated. But talk is cheap—he introduced a ten-point plan to tackle knife crime last August, and yet, violence continues to escalate.
While the official report states overall crime rates are down by 1 percent, this is misleading. The largest drop came from drug-related offenses, which fell by over 30%—likely due to the legalization of marijuana.
Meanwhile, the number of murders rose by nearly 16 percent last year, from 154 to 180 cases. Again, foreigners make up nearly half of the suspects in the most serious violent crimes—murder and manslaughter. The same is true for burglaries.
Over the past decade, violent crime has climbed by 20%, with non-German passport holders accounting for 41.8% of suspects.
Unfortunately, the precipitous rise in knife attacks is not the only deeply worrying issue that ordinary Germans must endure due to their government’s gross ineptitude.
Germany’s status as an economic powerhouse is also waning, and with it, the broader European continent’s stability. Inflation and rising energy costs, largely driven by the economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, are crushing both businesses and families alike.
Job losses are mounting, and once-thriving industries are on the brink of collapse due to reckless green policies and deindustrialization. Germany’s auto industry, once the envy of the world, has been hit particularly hard.
In October of last year, for the first time in its history, the German multinational automotive giant Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest car manufacturer, announced plans to close three factories, a move that would lead to the loss of tens of thousands of jobs.
Just days ago, Volkswagen informed its shareholders that the company’s net profit had declined by more than 30% in 2024 compared to the previous year, attributing the drop to high production costs, increased competition in China, and other contributing factors.
A recent study from the Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH), one of the country’s leading research firms, earlier this year revealed that Germany experienced the highest number of company bankruptcies since 2009 in the final quarter of last year, a trend attributed to elevated interest rates and skyrocketing prices.
The government’s abject failures are clear: unchecked, mass migration with no end in sight , gross economic mismanagement, and weak leadership lacking common sense have pushed the country to a breaking point. Without real action—closing the borders, mass deportations, prioritizing national interests, and restoring law and order—Germany will continue its tragic downward spiral. And the German people, of course, will continue pay the price.
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