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Roman Poseck (CDU), Interior Minister of Hesse, in an interview on the “Green Sofa” of the DPA editorial team in Wiesbaden.
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The crisis year of 2023 has caused crime to increase in Hesse.
Interior Minister Roman Poseck (CDU) said on Friday at the presentation of the police crime statistics (PKS) in Wiesbaden: “The year 2023 was marked by numerous extraordinary and crisis-related events.
The ongoing war in Ukraine, the attack on Israel by the terrorist organization Hamas and the poor economic situation also have an impact on the people in Hesse.”
Wiesbaden - Poseck added: “There has been an unprecedented variety of protests on our streets, which have also resulted in crimes, especially in the context of the Middle East conflict.
High inflation, catch-up effects from the corona pandemic and the increase in everyday mobility, which means there are more reasons and opportunities to commit crimes, are also causing crime to rise.
According to the Wiesbaden Ministry of the Interior, this was a nationwide trend in 2023.
In Hesse, the number of crimes rose by 28,933 last year compared to 2022, an increase of 7.8 percent to 397,512.
However, excluding the pandemic years 2020 to 2022 with fewer crime opportunities as a result of lockdowns, contact and travel restrictions, the number of crimes in Hesse in 2023 was below the average of the past two decades, according to the Interior Ministry.
Despite a “higher volume of cases”, the clearance rate in 2023 was 63.2 percent, roughly at the “high level of the previous year” of 63.7 percent.
Poseck said: “Hesse is still a safe federal state.
We are responding to the developments of the past year with concrete and goal-oriented political measures.” dpa