Everywhere in Europe it is the same: migrants, overwhelmingly Muslim, are a much larger proportion of the prison population than their numbers in the general population would suggest. In France, 10% of the population consists of Muslims, but they make up at least 60% of the prison population. In the UK, Muslims make up 6.5% of the population, but 21% of the prison population. In Germany, they are 5.5% of the population, but 30% of the prison population.
More on the latest figures from Germany, where foreign nationals — mostly Muslims — now account for almost 45 percent of Germany’s prison population, can be found here: “Foreign nationals now make up nearly half of Germany’s prison population,” Remix News, July 24, 2026:
Foreign nationals now account for almost 45 percent of Germany’s prison population, with the proportion approaching 60 percent in Berlin and Hamburg, according to figures obtained from all 16 state justice ministries.
An analysis by the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung found that 27,000 of the 60,408 people held in German prisons or pretrial detention as of March 2026 did not possess German citizenship. That puts the nationwide foreign-prisoner rate at a record 44.8 percent, up from roughly 30 percent in 2015.
The figures count dual nationals and foreign-born individuals with German citizenship as Germans, meaning the true number of foreign-born prisoners is likely to be far higher….
“Language barriers are a major problem,” association chairman René Müller told the newspaper, explaining that interpreters are not always available and translation technology cannot replace the direct communication needed to address prisoners’ problems and prepare them for release.
“Our officers are finding it increasingly difficult to rehabilitate inmates and are struggling to connect with them,” Müller said….
Muslim inmates don’t want Infidels to “rehabilitate” them; they have no desire to become part of a larger society that non-Muslims who are, they know, “the most vile of created beings,” created. They see nothing wrong with claiming a kind of proleptic jizyah from the Infidels, through street robberies, house burglaries, shoplifting, and pickpocketing.
In European prisons, the “Muslim gang” is the strongest of all gangs. Behind bars, the most extreme among the Muslim prisoners, who are the bosses of the Muslim prison gangs, “radicalize” its members, including those who before incarceration were less fanatical in their faith. And some non-Muslims convert to Islam in prison in order to enjoy the protection of the strongest gang — that is, the brotherhood of Believers.
Bavaria’s Justice Ministry similarly cited language difficulties and “culturally determined behaviors” that can produce serious conflicts between prisoners and staff.
“Culturally determined behaviors” is a euphemism for minds that Islam has molded, and are unable to accept the notion that Infidels who are “the most vile of created beings” should punish them, the “best of peoples.” For Muslims, this makes no sense.
Remix News reported on this back in 2024, when it was estimated that German prisons cost taxpayers approximately €4.14 billion annually, with around €1.82 billion spent incarcerating foreign nationals. At the time, foreign prisoners already made up more than half of the inmate population in several states.
Alternative for Germany lawmaker Martin Hess said those figures demonstrated the consequences of the country’s migration policies….
A different number is still more startling: in 2025, the German government spent thirty-six billion euros on the welfare benefits that it supplied to Muslim migrants that year. These welfare benefits include housing, medical care, vocational training, education, language lessons, family allowances, weekly payments for food, clothing, and other miscellaneous items.
“Around 15 percent of people living in Germany are foreigners. However, their share of suspects, convicted persons, and prisoners is disproportionately high,” Hess said at the time….
Keep in mind that only those prisoners who are non-citizens are being counted. Those who are dual nationals and foreign-born individuals with German citizenship are counted as Germans, and so are not included in the statistics about criminals who are migrants or have a migrant background. That methodology greatly undercounts the real number of migrant Muslim criminals now imprisoned. It is that kind of government legerdemain with crime and prison statistics that so enrages the members of the Alternative für Deutschland, which wants the German public to be given the real, and terrifying truth, about the full extent of Muslim crime in the country, and the full cost to taxpayers of providing Muslim migrants with every conceivable welfare benefit.
Rod says
Foreign Nationals Make Up the Majority of the Prison Population in Germany
Much more disturbing is the fact that most of the prison population in the United States, which has a horrendously high incarceration rate, vastly higher than Germany’s, are Americans.
ploome says
15% of the US population make up over 30% of those incarcerated
and conventional wisdom blames these factors:
Racial Bias in Policing and Sentencing:
War on Drugs:
Socioeconomic Disparities:
Gang Enhancement Laws:
……..notice how the incarcerated are not responsible for their criminal behavior because somehow, society at large is to blame
So instead of examining the destructive cultural behaviors of certain groups
blame everyone and everything else
more free and open society, more opportunity for criminal behaviors
Wellington says
Seconded, not that “Rod” will get any of what you stated.
Rod says
Well, you’re right there, Wellington.
It’s the implication that some Americans aren’t Americans that puzzles me. And that once we’ve accepted that, there’s nothing to worry about.
No doubt the horrific US rates of homicide can be brushed aside with similarly sophisticated manipulation of unwelcome statistics.
I wonder whether the Germans have mastered these subtle skills.
Wellington says
It’s not a matter of asserting that certain Americans are not Americans but rather that many Americans are failing both their country and themselves because they are taking for granted the many liberties that exist in this country. Freedom must be accompanied by self-restraint and discipline otherwise it is freedom abused.
With respect specifically to the black population of America, it has over 70% out-of-wedlock birth which is a recipe for family disintegration. Even Obama said that a fatherless boy is five times more likely to commit crimes as an adult. Black Americans make up some 13% of the population but account for over 60% of the violent crimes. I wish black Americans well but time is way overdue for black America to realize that the greatest enemy of black America is the way present black America is functioning. Blaming whitey is not any kind of argument but excuse making. There was a time when whites indeed were to blame where blacks were concerned but those days are long past.
ploome says
Rod writes:
It’s the implication that some Americans aren’t Americans that puzzles me.
where is this implication?
in your head?
Rod says
“Blaming whitey is not any kind of argument but excuse making”. But blaming someone else is OK?
“many Americans are failing both their country and themselves.” Could it be that America is and always has been failing many Americans?
I’ll give you three examples to think about.
One, Donald Trump claimed repeatedly that Barrack Obama was born in Kenya. What an egregious insult, seemingly calculated to further divide American society, which it probably did.
Two, there is now a serious proposal to disenfranchise millions of coloured Americans.
Three, America has once again, without the consent or desire of the American people or their Congress, started a war which has already cost billions of dollars, and will doubtless cost even more, while achieving nothing. This money could and should be used for the welfare of American people, many of whom are already in desperate need.
Wellington says
Time to get over the Obama stuff.
With respect to your second charge about disenfranchising “millions of coloured Americans,” this is a completely false accusation for which you will not be able to provide any evidence. Let me be crystal clear: What you stated is 100% false.
Finally, the vast majority of wars in American history were not declared wars by Congress. In fact, only five were. Presidents should not conduct military operations only when the American people or Congress approve—this is why the President under Article II of the Constitution is the sole Commander-in-Chief. As for achieving nothing, Iran’s military has been decimated and ask yourself this: If Iran is prepared to act as it has without nuclear weapons, including firing upon fellow Muslim nations, imagine what Iran would do if it had nuclear weapons. I may have some reservations about the WAY Trump has conducted this war, but I applaud him for being the only President to actually take solid measures to prevent the hideous Iranian regime from possessing nuclear weapons and which they would surely use.
Rod says
Time to get over the Obama stuff.
Isn’t that for the millions who were angered and offended to say? Why you?
the vast majority of wars in American history were not declared wars by Congress.
Is that a boast? Most democracies are, well, democracies.
ask yourself this: If Iran is prepared to act as it has without nuclear weapons, “act as it has”? Do you mean respond to an illegal unwarranted misdirected clumsily executed surprise attack?
I ask myself this – If America is prepared to act as it has (yet again) with nuclear weapons, and the decision is made unilaterally by a posturing infantile clown, imagine what might happen next.
The myth of Iran’s nuclear weapons seems to be still real to the gullible, despite the advice and evidence provided by your own and other experts.
Meanwhile, I and my countrymen, with millions of others around the world, are paying today and will pay for more months, for Trump’s stupidity. Including of course, Americans, who watch their own money being pointlessly burned away for the selfish delight of your man-baby president.
Meanwhile, as I said before
most of the prison population in the United States, which has a horrendously high incarceration rate, vastly higher than Germany’s, are Americans.
Make of that what you will. The significance is only too plain, also to Germans.
Wellington says
No, it wasn’t a boast; I was only narrating a reality. The President is Commander-in-Chief and can act accordingly. For example, the Korean War is one of the ten largest wars in history and yet it was never a declared war by Congress. Harry Truman acted as he did to prevent the entire Korean peninsula from coming under Communist control. You tend to read way too much into what others state.
As for your contention about the myth of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons, if you really believe this is a myth then you live in a fantasy world. Even the far left Guardian in a November 18th, 2020 article detailed how Iran under the feckless JCPOA negotiated by Obama was violating the terms of that agreement by doing such things as storing centrifuges that were forbidden under that agreement. Just as Hitler meant what he said, so has Iran when calling for the death of Israel and America. BTW, in mid-February of this year, shorty before Trump launched his attacks on Iran, both Kushner and Witkoff were told by the Iranian representative that Iran was only weeks away from making 11 nuclear bombs. Or are you going to simply ignore or dispute this as well?
Why me about the Obama stuff? Because I have as much right to opine on this matter as anyone or do you think only those who remain offended by it have that right? Again, you conclude things in a half-ass way.
I noticed you didn’t both to provide any evidence for any voter disenfranchisement. That’s because you can’t. Don’t make assertions as you have with no proof. I could write on but what would be the use. I will close with this: you don’t know as much as you think you do, especially about America.
Rod says
I noticed you didn’t both to provide any evidence for any voter disenfranchisement. That’s because you can’t.
Perhaps you’re not aware that as an observer thousands of miles away from the White House, I have free access to all the world’s media. We don’t ban journalists, punish media who misbehave, or bring defamation suits for millions of dollars, or should that be billions? , and thus censor stories unapproved by our “Commanders in Chief”.
I don’t know who has told you about the Save America Act, but the world knows what is proposed, and why it is proposed, and what are its objectives. And why it’s so urgent with the mid-terms approaching.
Good luck with your democracy, or at least what’s left of it.
Rod says
I will close with this: you don’t know as much as you think you do, especially about America.
You may be right, but I do know a bit about the significance of statistics.
Enough to know that in terms of rates per head of population for things like homicide, rape, criminal assault, burglary, incarceration, any American opinion casting aspersions on Germany should be viewed with wry amusement, or perhaps even hysterical laughter.
Which is a pretty good indicator of the real significance of this entire website, isn’t it?
abu taleb says
The German citizens who are non white muslims should be considered as foreigners, then we will have the true number for the crime by muslims.
Desparate-in-Germany says
ROD: based on your spelling you are likely British and seem to have a bit of misunderstanding of some history and terminology.
To your second eloquent point:
“Two, there is now a serious proposal to disenfranchise millions of coloured Americans.”
How exactly??
The term “colored” (or “coloured” in British English) has been used for centuries, but its meaning, social acceptability, and legal status shifted dramatically depending on the time period and the region.
1. Early Usage (17th – 19th Centuries)
In the 1700s and 1800s, “colored” was a common descriptive term used to identify people of African descent or those of mixed racial heritage. In the United States, it was often used as a broader category that included both Black people and people of mixed race (mulattoes). During this time, it was a standard term in both legal documents and social conversation, though it was used within a framework of systemic racial hierarchy and slavery.
2. The Jim Crow Era (Late 19th – Mid 20th Century)
From the late 1800s through the mid-1900s, the term became heavily associated with institutional segregation in the United States.
Segregation Signs: The term was used explicitly to enforce segregation. Signs reading “Colored Only” or “Colored Waiting Room” were used to separate Black and white citizens in public spaces.
Self-Identification: Interestingly, during this period, many Black Americans used the term “colored” as a polite or formal way to refer to themselves and their community. It was often seen as more “refined” than other terms of the time. This is reflected in the naming of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), founded in 1909.
3. The Shift to “Black” (1960s – Present)
The term began to fall out of favor during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
The “Black Power” Movement: Activists began to reject “colored” because it was seen as a term imposed by a white-dominated society and associated with the era of segregation and subservience.
Reclaiming Identity: Terms like “Black” and “Afro-American” were adopted to signify pride, political agency, and a connection to African heritage. By the late 1960s and 1970s, “colored” was increasingly viewed as outdated, offensive, or a reminder of the Jim Crow era.
4. Regional Differences (South Africa)
It is important to note that in South Africa, the term “Coloured” has a different historical and legal meaning.
Under the Apartheid system (1948–1994), “Coloured” was an official legal category used to describe people of mixed racial ancestry (including European, African, and Asian heritage). Unlike in the U.S., where the term became a pejorative, “Coloured” remains a distinct ethnic identity for many people in South Africa today, though its usage still carries the heavy weight of the Apartheid era’s racial classifications.
somehistory says
When I was a child, we often would go to what was called, “Colored Town” so my father could hire extra help on the farm.. This was in the last century and the “term” was not used in a bad way by anyone we knew.
Perhaps to some in the White areas of the town it would have been a ” pejorative.” But not by any of my family or those I knew.
It’s a sad fact that the views of the *loudest* are often taken as the views of *all.*
Desparate-in-Germany says
Germany was once a clean, orderly, safe, beautiful country. It is truly sad to watch its decline.
ploome says
you write:
.Germany was once a clean, orderly, safe, beautiful country
for some, nicht whar?
this fiction was shattered when the German people joyfully embraced national socialism, ….as long as the national socialists were winning of course
Desparate-in-Germany says
I was referring to the the post war clean-up to pre 2015.
“Joyful embracing” doesn’t really fit the times that led to unfortunate times and choices.
Wellington says
I agree. Germany back in the Nineties, shortly after unification, was still pretty good, still OK. Yes, there were even by then too many Turks in Germany but overall it was a manageable situation. Isn’t any longer due first and foremost to Angela Merkel and which here reminds me again of a very dark joke, to wit, what is the difference between Adolf Hitler and Angela Merkel? Answer: Hitler loved Germany.
ploome says
“unfortunate’ is when you cannot find bok choi at your supermarket
your characterization of ” the times that led to unfortunate times and choices.”,
reminds me of how Ilian Omar described 9/11
>“recognized that some people did something and that all of us were starting to lose access to our civil liberties”
she and muslims were the true victims
sounds just like you
nauseating
Desparate-in-Germany says
Wellington: funny!
ploome: whatever yiu want to think is fine with me. you do not understand my thoughts or intentions. I am on this site to talk about what is going bad now! I am not condoning hitler or what happened in the least . Comparing what i said to ilhsn omsr is plain dumb. I have to put up with all kinds of slack with my defense of Israell and standing up for Jews, i don’t need or want your silly comments here.
Desparate-in-Germany says
ploome:
here is a bit of history for you. This is what i meant by your comment, many Germans did not merily flock to hitler. I lost relatives, have Jesuits in my family who were sent to Auschwitz. My Grandfather wss killed standing up to the Nazi’s. I do not defend any action of hitler. But, i am not going to let the past pussy whip me to keeping my mouth shut now for fear of being compared to the NSDAP!!
Adolf Hitler did not take power through a single election victory or a majority vote. Instead, he was appointed Chancellor by President Paul von Hindenburg on January 30, 1933, following a series of political maneuvers and coalition agreements.
While he was not elected to the position of leader of Germany by the public, his party, the Nazi Party (NSDAP), gained significant influence through the Reichstag (parliamentary) elections. In the two most critical elections leading up to his appointment, the results were:
July 1932 Election: The NSDAP became the largest party in the Reichstag, receiving 37.3% of the vote (approximately 8.5 million votes).
November 1932 Election: The party’s support dipped slightly to 33.1% of the vote (approximately 7.8 million votes).
Despite being the largest party, the Nazis never won an absolute majority in a free election. Hitler used this plurality of support to pressure President Hindenburg and other conservative politicians into believing that he was the only person capable of stabilizing the government, eventually leading to his appointment as Chancellor.
ploome says
you write:
. I have to put up with all kinds of slack with my defense of Israell and standing up for Jews,
tells us all we need to know about the current German attitude
i don’t need or want your silly comments here.
you just verified my “silly comments” and demonstrate your arrogance
YOU don’t want my “silly comments” here!!
Who do you think you are?
Desparate in Germany says
I chose the wrong word, defending Isreal can get one killed, ironically. The word should have been “flack”. It was an “unfortunate” typo.
I don’t represent German views, as I was raised elsewhere, nor do your views represent “us” here.
Now, leave me alone and let me go “joyfully embrace” my bok choy” as i “arrogantly” go check myself in the mirror and make sure my “ilhan omar” costume is on properly!
Go troll someone else, whoever you are, dpp