The numbers are based on "incoming" police statistics, where offences are recorded when they become known to the police. This means that there is also a dark figure. However, for 2024, it should be noted that due to the European Football Championship last summer, a particularly high number of people were traveling by train for several weeks, writes the Yahoo News portal.
The spokesman for internal affairs of the conservative faction in the German parliament, Alexander Throm told Die Welt newspaper: "Train stations and trains becoming places of fear severely impact the public's feeling of security and should not be a permanent condition."
AfD lawmaker Martin Hess emphasized in a statement, that
train stations, once places of mobility and peaceful encounters, are increasingly becoming no-go areas.
At Dortmund's central station, the highest number of sexual offences, altogether 53 cases, were reported last year. This was followed by the main stations in Frankfurt, with 40 incidents, and Hamburg also with 40. In 2023, Cologne's central station led with 57 offences. The AfD's enquiry also requested information on the origin of suspects. Mr. Hess, whose party is vehemently anti-immigrant, remarked that "In many areas of crime, foreigners are disproportionately represented among the suspects."
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