Georgia is no longer among the countries whose citizens commit most crimes in Germany
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For the first time in recent years, Georgia has not been among the 25 countries whose citizens commit the most crimes in Germany.
This was revealed after the German Interior Ministry released its 2016 crime statistics earlier this week.
"Yesterday 2016 German police statistics were released, which saw a positive trend in the past several years and Georgia was not among the 25 countries whose citizens most frequently commit a crime in Germany. In recent years it was the first time when such a decrease was observed for Georgia”, said Gvantsa Chkhvimiani, Georgia’s police attaché in Germany to Georgian media.
In comparison, in the 2015 report Georgia was named 19th among the countries with the highest crime rate in Germany.
The German Interior Ministry releases such reports once a year. It analyses crime statistics from all 16 federal provinces of the country. In 2016 a total of registered number of crimes was 6 million.
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