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Germany sees rise in far-right crime with online offences as main driver
Khaleej Times
|January 07, 2025
Germany saw a jump in cases of crime attributed to the far right in 2024, driven largely by online offences and hate speech, a government spokesperson said on Monday.
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Up to November 30, there were 33,963 registered cases of right-wing politically motivated crime, the spokesperson said, citing the most current data for last year.
This compared with 28,945 such cases during the whole of 2023.
This story is from the January 07, 2025 edition of Khaleej Times.
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