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Germany Recorded 231 Anti-Muslim Crimes in the First Half of 2026
According to the federal government’s official answer to the Bundestag, nine offences between January and June were directed at mosques and 127 suspects were identified, but no one was arrested. The government says the figures are incomplete because of a technical changeover in police reporting and cannot be compared with earlier years.
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The Official Figures
Official position
According to the federal government’s answer of 4 August 2026 to a question from the Green parliamentary group in the Bundestag, 231 politically motivated offences under the sub-heading “anti-Islamic” were reported to the Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) for January to June 2026. Thirty-three were committed online. Of the offences, 194 were classified as right-wing, 12 as driven by a foreign ideology and 10 by a religious ideology; 15 could not be assigned to any of these. [1]
Official position
Eighty-nine of the offences were incitement to hatred (Volksverhetzung); 16 were violent offences, all of them assaults; 13 were damage to property, 11 threats or coercion and 11 the use of symbols of unconstitutional organisations. Nine offences were directed at mosques. According to the government, 127 suspects were identified; none was arrested. [1]
Official position
The government stresses that the 2026 figures are provisional and cannot be compared with earlier years. Because the police reporting system for political crime was being technically overhauled, it says, the states reported fewer cases for 2026 than in previous years, and the missing cases have been reported successively since 1 June 2026. [1]
By Federal State
Official position
The annex to the answer lists all 231 offences individually, with the state in which each was committed. By DinAtlas’s count of that list, Baden-Württemberg recorded the most cases (41), followed by Hamburg (30), Brandenburg (23), Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate (18 each), Thuringia (16), Berlin (15) and Bavaria (13). Schleswig-Holstein and Saxony recorded 10 each, Bremen and Lower Saxony 8 each, North Rhine-Westphalia 7, Saxony-Anhalt 6, Saarland 5 and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 3. [1]
Editorial note
This breakdown shows the cases the states have reported to the BKA so far; it does not show in which state anti-Muslim hostility is more widespread. Because of the technical changeover the government mentions, the states’ reports may be incomplete to different degrees: North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state, has only 7 recorded cases. The state figures shown for Germany on the DinAtlas map are based on this list.
The First Quarter and Earlier Years
Official position
In an earlier answer of 16 June 2026 to a question from the Left parliamentary group (Die Linke), the government reported 104 anti-Islamic offences for the first quarter of 2026, as of 30 April. Three people were slightly injured, one each in Brandenburg, Bavaria and Hamburg; no one was seriously injured or killed. Four offences were directed at mosques; 57 suspects were identified, with no arrests and no arrest warrants. According to the same answer, the updated annual totals are 2,115 offences for 2024 and 1,828 for 2025; in 2025, 879 offences were committed online and 58 targeted mosques. [2]
Official position
The answer to the Greens also gives half-year figures, each counted as of the last day of the period: 279 and 641 offences in the first and second half of 2023, 429 and 593 in 2024, and 489 and 543 in 2025. The government says the figure of 231 for the first half of 2026 cannot be compared with these. [1]
Discrimination Reports
Official position
According to the same answer, the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency recorded 178 cases of anti-Muslim discrimination in the first half of 2026: 58 in employment, 42 in access to private services and goods, 13 each in education and housing, and 12 in dealings with the justice system and the police. Among reports naming a state, North Rhine-Westphalia (43), Berlin (26) and Bavaria (23) stand out. The agency also describes these figures as provisional. [1]
Gaps in the Record and Open Questions
Official position
The government says that an “anti-Muslim” motive is not a separate searchable category in the police system, so it can report only offences recorded under the sub-heading “anti-Islamic”. The material damage caused by anti-Islamic offences is not recorded, and the government does not plan to record it. [2][1]
Reported by the source
On 19 October 2026, the Left parliamentary group published two new questions on the second and third quarters of 2026. They ask for a breakdown of the offences by date, place, state and type, and about attacks on mosques, injuries, material damage, investigations and convictions. The government’s answers have not yet been published. [3][4]
DinAtlas’s Assessment
DinAtlas interpretation
In DinAtlas’s view, the official figures show only part of the threat Muslims and mosques face in Germany. The government itself concedes that the 2026 data are incomplete; an anti-Muslim motive is not recorded as a category of its own, and the damage done to mosques is not counted at all. Nine attacks on mosques and 127 suspects in six months without a single arrest raise serious questions about the protection of victims and the prosecution of offenders. For the sake of Muslims’ right to equal protection, DinAtlas considers complete and timely recording of these crimes, including the damage done to mosques, to be necessary, and will follow the government’s answers on the second and third quarters. [1][2]
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Sources4
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Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage der Fraktion BÜNDNIS 90/DIE GRÜNEN – Drucksache 21/6705 – Antimuslimische Vorfälle im ersten Halbjahr 2026 (Drucksache 21/7478)
Antwort der Bundesregierung auf die Kleine Anfrage der Fraktion Die Linke – Drucksache 21/5917 – Islamfeindlichkeit und antimuslimische Straftaten im ersten Quartal 2026 (Drucksache 21/6530)
Kleine Anfrage der Fraktion Die Linke: Islamfeindlichkeit und antimuslimische Straftaten im zweiten Quartal 2026 (Drucksache 21/8699)
Kleine Anfrage der Fraktion Die Linke: Islamfeindlichkeit und antimuslimische Straftaten im dritten Quartal 2026 (Drucksache 21/8701)