Overview

• Preliminary police data show 648 recorded offences against asylum seekers in the first half of 2025, down from 1,236 in the same period of 2024, though the figures cover only incidents outside refugee accommodations.
• North Rhine-Westphalia reported 6,797 police deployments to asylum accommodations in the first six months of 2025, averaging over 1,100 responses per month for incidents ranging from theft and drug offences to knife attacks and homicides.
• Berlin’s interior administration logged 615 suspected antisemitic offences in H1 2025, with more than half classed as propaganda offences and a rising share linked to pro-Palestinian demonstrations rather than exclusively far-right actors.
• The Federal Office for Migration and Refugees recorded 61,336 first-time protection applications in H1 2025, marking a nearly 50 percent year-on-year decline.
• Political reactions have split as the AfD cites the deployment figures to argue a loss of state control and demand deportations, while state governments stress that response counts do not equate to confirmed crimes.