The gruesome gang rape that led to the death of 13-year-old Leonie by allegedly four Afghans has shocked the public. Studies and crime statistics show that they are clearly overrepresented in crimes of rape and murder. Why do Afghans commit crimes so often?
Unfortunately, Leonie is not an isolated case. In offences such as rape or murder, Afghan nationals are clearly overrepresented, according to the police crime statistics of the Ministry of the Interior from 2019 and 2020. In relative terms, Afghans commit 10 times as many rapes as Austrian citizens. Afghans are also 10 times more likely to be listed in the statistics for homicides.
Recently, Upper Austria’s Deputy Governor Manfred Haimbuchner ( Freedom Party of Austria, FPÖ) summed up the results of an Institute for Advanced Studies study on Facebook: “In a recent publication, the Institute for Advanced Studies states that the crime rate of Afghans is four times higher than that of the average resident population. For drug offences, the figure is nine times higher and for sexual offences even twelve times higher.” It would therefore be time to have the inevitable debate on whether we want them to continue to pose this risk to us.
Of the approximately 45,000 Afghans living in Austria, 95 % are male. 60 % of all “underage” refugees come from Afghanistan. “In every country in the world, males aged 14 to under 30 are the population group that is conspicuous for its particular readiness to take risks and a high affinity for prohibited activities. Above all, they are extremely overrepresented in sexual and violent offences,” says a study by the Zurich University of Applied Sciences.
The war in Afghanistan has been going on for 40 years. In addition, crime and corruption in the country are incredibly high. Corruption in Afghanistan is considered one of the highest in the world, as is poverty.The war in Afghanistan has been going on for 40 years. In addition, crime and corruption in the country are incredibly high. Corruption in Afghanistan is considered one of the highest in the world, as is poverty. Political scientist and Afghan expert Sarajuddin Rasuly explained Angela Merkel’s call to Syrians to come to Germany in 2015 as the cause of the unfortunate situation. He said that the Afghans had joined the Syrians’ bandwagon.
In the main, “young, often underage men were sent on the way, whose average level of education would have been very low”, the institute’s study says. Rasuly speaks of around 50 % illiterate. Quite a few who lived in Iran in the meantime were addicted to opium. That was the only way they could endure their hard life. Here in Austria there is no opium, so they drink alcohol. While opium calms them down, alcohol makes them aggressive, which is often the background to criminal incidents.
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