The German federal government reports, according to the Saturday edition of the “Frankfurter Rundschau”, that in the fourth quarter of 2025 there were more than 200 politically motivated offenses against asylum seekers and refugees alone. The figures come from the government’s response to an inquiry by the Left party’s interior politician Clara Bünger.
Accordingly, 204 crimes were recorded against the refugee population, and 33 additional politically motivated offenses targeted refugee accommodations, including acts of arson. The report states that 25 people were injured, a child among them.
The figures released by the Interior Ministry are said by the “Frankfurter Rundschau” to be incomplete, as many incidents are added to the statistics with a delay.
Bünger said that attacks on refugees have become part of everyday life in Germany for years. Those who come here in search of safety and dignity are harassed, intimidated, threatened, and physically assaulted. “We must never accept these conditions as normal” she told the paper.
She argued that criminal prosecution alone is insufficient. “Effective protection measures must be developed” she added. “It is also essential to end the incitement of racism within parliaments and government benches”. She warned that if refugees are consistently portrayed as a problem, it emboldens “right‑wing citizens to act on their racist resentments”.