The number of political crimes fell by 15 percent to 7,600 in 2023. Politically motivated acts of violence have increased by 37 percent.
Anti-Semitic crimes have even increased by 65 percent to 550 crimes. Salafist networks were proselytizing again - on the Internet and on the streets. Hate preachers are increasingly active again. Well-known Islamists like Pierre Vogel are well-known in Leverkusen. The number of anti-Semitism crimes in North Rhine-Westphalia was a new high. This does not include the drastically increased 690 anti-Israel crimes. A broad alliance can be observed between Islamists, right-wing extremists, and pro-Russian activists. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, Jürgen Kayser reported that this was not very well received by the respective followers. The report was presented by NRW Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) on Thursday in Düsseldorf. “2023 was not a good year for our free-democratic basic order, he said.