German Police report almost 34,000 right-wing extremist crimes in 2024, a record high
German Police recorded almost 34,000 crimes last year which were motivated by right-wing extremism. The RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (RND) website has reported the number, noting it is preliminary.
According to RND this is a record-high number of such crimes in one year that could rise further by the time the final report is published in May. In 2023 the Federal Crime Bureau (BKA) recorded 28,945 crimes which it categorized in its statistics as “politically-motivated crimes from the right”.
As of 30 November 2025 the BKA had recorded 33.963 such crimes. Of those, 1,136 involved violence.
The biggest part of the right-wing extremist crimes committed in 2024 fell into the category of promoting movements to suppress rights and freedoms. There were more than 21,000 of them.
Such crimes included, for instance, the painting of Nazi swastikas and other banned symbols or the shouting of banned slogans. There were more than 5,000 cases of what is called incitement of the people, i.e., crime connected with hatred towards certain groups.
The vast majority of perpetrators of violent right-wing crime are adults. However, according to RND, in recent years the number of juveniles among the perpetrators is growing.
The data which the RND received from the Interior Ministry and published does not include information about other forms of extremist crimes, for instance, those perpetrated by the ultra-left.
