The number of politically motivated crimes has risen again in 2014. A total of 32,700 offenses (+ 3.3%) and 3,368 violent acts (+ 18.3%) were registered. The number of politically motivated violent acts has reached an all-time high since the beginning of the 2001 survey. The number of offenses in the area of PMK-right lies at the high level of the previous year (17,020), the number of violent acts on the right increased by an average of 22.9% to 1,029. In the PMK-left area, the number of offenses fell (-6.5%), while the number of left-wing violent crimes remained at the high level of the previous year (1,664, + 0.3%). Offenses allocated to the PMAK area almost tripled in 2014 (2,549, + 191.6%); The violence has more than doubled (390, + 133.5%).
The number of physical injuries rose by 29.4% to 2,285 in 2014. An above-average increase is seen in the area of politically motivated foreigner crime (PMAK) (+ 152.7% to 278 cases). In each case 40 percent of the personal injuries are due to PMK-links and PMK-right. In total, there were 15 attempted killings in 2015. The areas PMK-links and PMAK each contain 7 attempted killings, one act was right-motive. In the PMK-left area, a death sacrifice is to be deplored.
De Maizière said: "The figures for politically motivated crime are part of our early warning system, they enable statements on the motivation of the perpetrators and thus show threatening social developments." The figures for 2014 are very thoughtful: More crimes and a new absolute peak As well as the anti-Semitic, anti-Semitic, and racist motivated crimes and acts of violence, have increasingly targeted the churches, synagogues and mosques, asylum-seekers and refugees are increasingly attacked, which is worrying and has to be stopped Germany is a peaceful, cosmopolitan country, we want to live together peacefully and respectfully. "
Attacks on asylum and refugee shelters have risen sharply in 2014. In this context, there were 203 offenses, which were predominantly right-wing motivated. Right-motivated perpetrators are responsible for 175 of these attacks (2013: 58). In 2014 the right-wing scene continued to try to use the public debate on immigration for xenophobic agitation.