As of: March 18, 2024, 7:47 a.m
By: Felix Herz
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Violence in schools is escalating, and Bavaria is no exception.
The numbers are frightening, and the question remains: what is behind this increase?
Munich – Fights, attacks and sexual assaults: The number of reported violent incidents in Bavarian schools is increasing.
According to the most recent data from the State Criminal Police Office (LKA) from 2022, exactly 1,674 violent crimes involving minor bodily harm were recorded.
This corresponds to an increase of around 15 percent compared to the pre-Corona year 2019, in which 1,422 cases were documented.
Despite only a slight increase in the number of students in the Free State of just over 1 percent - from 1.65 to around 1.67 million children and young people - between 2019 and 2022, as the State Statistical Office reports.
Horrifying crime statistics – more violence in Bavarian schools
The police crime statistics include incidents at public schools, special schools, private schools, other educational institutions, boarding schools and training centers.
These are acts that were committed within the school building or on school grounds.
In 2022, 744 students and 43 teachers suffered minor injuries, compared to 575 children and 41 teachers in 2019.
Violence at schools in Bavaria is increasing.
The latest figures from the State Criminal Police Office show an alarming increase of 15 percent since 2019. (Symbolic image) © teamwork / IMAGO
Violent crime, which includes crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape, robbery, extortion or dangerous and serious bodily harm, recorded 554 cases in a school context last year.
In comparison, there were 424 cases three years earlier, an increase of more than 23 percent.
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Bavaria compared to other federal states – an increase in violence can be observed everywhere
Other federal states have also seen an increase in recorded violent crimes compared to the period before the corona pandemic - in some cases even significantly.
The statistics from the Ministry of the Interior in North Rhine-Westphalia show an increase in cases by more than half between 2019 and 2022, although the number of students at general education and vocational schools as well as at health schools only increased by around one percent (between the 2019/2022 school years). 20 and 2022/23).
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According to Germany's General School Management Association, many teachers have the impression that the willingness to use violence has increased.
“We have noticed that more weapons are being taken to school than before,” said association chairman Sven Winkler.
Above all, knives and so-called pseudo-weapons, which look confusingly similar to real firearms, are found.
It remains uncertain whether the children and young people carry the weapons out of a willingness to use violence or out of fear and a desire for self-defense.
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