Overview

• Hamburg’s CDU has submitted a motion for today’s Bürgerschaft session to record all nationalities of suspects and victims in police crime statistics.
• CDU interior expert Dennis Gladiator says fuller reporting is needed for transparency and argues the current approach distorts reality and complicates police and judicial work.
• The motion calls for retroactive application of the new recording method in Hamburg.
• The CDU also wants Hamburg to urge the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) to change nationwide guidelines.
• North Rhine–Westphalia began listing multiple citizenships by decree from July 1, and a 2023 analysis cited by the CDU found that one in six suspects with German citizenship also held another nationality.