An excerpt from the letter read:
State and federal politics repeatedly talk about “integration” and tolerance of/towards migrants/refugees. We ask you seriously, how can you expect citizens of this country to be open to the refugee policy being practiced when they have to witness – practically every day, and not just on public transport! – such violence, brutality, and absolute contempt and mockery of our laws and society, including its so-called “values”?
The demise of civilized travel is not only reserved for Germany. In neighboring France, crime on public transport has sky-rocketed in recent times, coinciding with a dramatic uptick in the number of suspects from a migration background.
Annual figures provided by the French interior ministry’s statistics bureau, the SSMSI, in September last year revealed that 69 percent of violent robberies and other violent crimes, including sexual assaults, on public transport in the greater Paris region of Île-de-France were perpetrated by foreign nationals.
A closer look at the data showed Africans alone were responsible for 52 percent of such crimes while only representing 3.2 percent of the population of France.
Across the whole of France, 55 percent of suspects pertaining to offenses on public transport are foreign nationals, the data indicated.
