Overview

• Violent crime in Saxony surged to 9,703 cases in 2024, up from 9,151 in 2023, with serious assaults and sexual offenses driving the increase.
• Youth involvement in violent crime rose sharply, with child suspects increasing by 34.6% and adolescent suspects by 16.5% compared to the previous year.
• Politically motivated crimes reached a historic peak of 8,009 cases in 2024, fueled by election-year tensions, with right-wing offenses seeing the largest rise.
• Approximately 25,000 of the 93,101 suspects identified in 2024 had foreign roots, with a small subset of asylum seekers disproportionately responsible for crimes.
• Interior Minister Schuster has called for prosecuting 18- to 21-year-olds under adult criminal law and emphasized the need for societal efforts to curb aggression and brutality.