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That's definitely true but not only in Germany.
I'm reading a couple of European newspapers every day in order to keep up-to-date with European politics and to practice languages.
Then, sometimes I read about immigrant crimes on some American right-wing site, really brutal stuff like a refugee barber slitting his customer's throat and my first reaction is 'meh sounds like Fake News, I didn't see anything about it in the nation's 2 largest newspapers or something. Then you type in 'barber refugee' on their websites and only find stories like "refugee-barber faces wacist backlash because people misunderstand him..." Then I open google.(fr|de|it) and search for some key words and after some digging, yes there often is a legit source, some local newspaper, a press release issued by local police etc
I've even seen statements on Facebook pages of newspapers after people ask "but what about X", the official explanation seems to be that it's 'local news'.
I think that's nonsense and I fully agree with far-right posters who say there's a strong narrative. Other crimes are reported on national media all the time, a nation like Germany has like ~1 1st degree murder a day.
Let alone when we talk about stuff like gang rape which was almost a non-existent problem before diversity kicked in.
And like it or not, yes crimes committed by migrants are different from crimes committed by locals/natives. They add a political dimension. If an Italian commits a crime, it is what it is, he'll be prosecuted. If there's a rise in certain crimes you can try to analyze it and evaluate possible causes and counter-measurements. If people who are there only because politicians made certain decisions start to commit vicious crimes all the time, there's something these politicians have to learn from it, they have to draw their conclusions and they have to adjust their decision making.
Politicians are elected by the people, therefore the people have to be informed about such developments.
Excellent points. Especially the one about migrant crimes not equating native crime.
There is a discussion about mass immigration so of course imported crime is relevant to that discussion.
Also, morally, If I go to a country that isn't mine and kill someone there it is even more reprehensible than if I did it at home.