Switzerland August 2026
More than four in five North African asylum seekers in Switzerland face crime accusations
orth African asylum seekers in Switzerland have been accused of one or more criminal offences at a rate of 80.5 per cent, an internal government evaluation has shown.
Applicants from the Maghreb were named as suspects during their asylum procedure or after a negative decision in 2024, according to the State Secretariat for Migration (SEM). Swiss newspaper Blick obtained the document under the country’s freedom of information law.
The comparable figure for asylum seekers from all other countries of origin was 12.3 per cent. Public broadcaster SRF, which also saw the paper, put the gap at more than six and a half times.
The figures record accusations rather than convictions. The SEM noted in the paper that only a fifth of the group had stayed clear of prosecutors.
Applicants from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia have almost no prospect of protection, with about 99 per cent of their claims refused. Switzerland, in the Schengen area though outside the European Union, tightened its asylum rules again in October 2025 with a ban on foreign travel.
Jans introduced a 24-hour procedure for North African applicants in 2024 to clear hopeless cases quickly. The SEM said the process in fact took an average of 22 days.
Removal is harder still, with the agency telling NZZ am Sonntag that about 90 per cent of North African applicants arrived without identity papers, which blocks the issuing of travel documents.
A federal and cantonal task force on repeat offenders, launched in June 2025, tracked 87 people. After six months 36 had either left the country or disappeared, and a final report is due in late autumn.
Council of States member Damian Müller of the Free Democratic Party (FDP) said a rate on that scale could no longer be dismissed as isolated cases and amounted to a serious security problem. Fellow Council of States member Tiana Moser of the Green Liberal Party said many young Maghreb men came to Switzerland knowing the legal system would treat them leniently. SEM spokesman Daniel Bach stressed that 96 per cent of the asylum population faced no accusation at all in 2025. The comparable rate was 0.6 per cent for Swiss nationals and 1 per cent for resident foreigners.
Jans said he would tighten administrative detention and bar applicants with no realistic claim from lodging one, with a legislative package due to go out to consultation this year. Neither measure addresses the missing passports that keep rejected North Africans in the country.
Denmark -- Crime vs cost
Denmark -- Crime Overrepresentation by Country of Origin
https://x.com/gregoryconnor11
Comparison of Rape over Time in UK, Germany, France and Poland
In some countries the definition of rape might have changed -- previously required physical coercion.
Norway : the Progress Party forced Statistics Norway to release ethnic crime data.
Almost half of young Somali men in Oslo (483 out of 1000) got caught and charged with violent crime.
Charge rate for violent crime in Oslo among men age 15-24, 2021-23. (The same person might be charged with several crimes.)
Sweden
Lund University Study (2025): An extensive review of over 4,000 rape convictions spanning from 2000 to 2024 by Lund University researchers found that 63% of convicted offenders had an immigrant background (born abroad or having two foreign-born parents). [1, 2] SVT/BBC Analysis (2018): A public broadcaster review of convictions over a five-year period found that 58% of convicted rapists were born abroad. In cases where the victim did not know the attacker, the proportion of foreign-born offenders was over 80%. [1, 2]
Other sources put the percentages for non European lower. Sweden did study offenders’ country of birth and parents’ country of birth in a few official reports:
| Source | Period covered | Key result (share of foreign background among suspects of all crimes) |
|---|---|---|
| BRÅ 2005:17 (National Council for Crime Prevention) | 1997–2001 | 25 % of population with foreign background → 40 % of all crime suspects |
| BRÅ 2021:6 (update using 2015–2018 data) | 2015–2018 | 30 % of population with foreign background → 58 % of all crime suspects |
For sexual offences, BRÅ 2021:6 noted that suspects with foreign background (meaning foreign-born or with two foreign-born parents) were about 60 % of suspects.
Germany
Poster Aug 13, 2026
According to statistics unwillingly published by German authorities only after a request from an AfD legislator, the rates per 100,000 of persons arrested for violent crime in Germany are as follows:
Germans: 158
Moroccans: 1319.3
Tunisians: 2096
Algerians: 5023
All foreigners: 628
Germany
Germany Train Conductors Feel Threatened and Do Not Necessarily Check Tickets of "Foreigners"
A married couple who had recently traveled on a Süd-Thüringen-Bahn contacted the Thüringer Allgemeine newspaper to report that they had witnessed individuals who didn’t appear to be German not having their tickets checked while German citizens still had theirs scrutinized.
After the newspaper contacted the railway service provider, they initially denied the claim, insisting that all tickets were being checked.
However, after further enquiries, the company admitted that train conductors had been given powers not to check the tickets of passengers who posed a risk of being troublesome in order to de-escalate tensions.
If the conductors feel threatened or intimidated by approaching such individuals, they can bypass the ticket check
https://modernity.news/2024/09/18/train-conductors-in-germany-given-power-not-to-check-tickets-of-migrants-in-order-to-avoid-trouble/
Switzerland
Nearly half of all crime suspects in Austria last year were foreign nationals, even though they represent just 20% of the population, according to the 2024 criminal police report. This stark disparity has reignited fierce political debate over migration and its broader impact on Austrian society. Out of 335,911 suspects investigated for criminal offenses, 46.8% were non-Austrian, with the largest contingents hailing from Romania, Germany, and Syria, the Austrian press reported. Notably, crimes involving Syrian nationals surged by nearly 30% compared to 2023, with minors accounting for a disproportionate share of that increase.
It’s worth noting that crime data on German suspects can be misleading, as naturalized immigrants are classified as German in official records. The same applies in Austria, where naturalized foreigners aren’t counted as “foreign,” suggesting the true proportion of foreign-born suspects likely exceeds the reported 47 percent. Interior Minister Gerhard Karner of the ruling Austrian People’s Party presented the data on Monday, noting the broader context: 534,193 criminal cases were reported nationwide in 2024, a 1.2% rise from the previous year. The police managed a 52.9% clearance rate—the third-best in a decade.
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