BERLIN – Germany saw a drop in reported crime last year, partly due to pandemic restrictions that kept people indoors, although there was a rise in child abuse, domestic violence and cybercrime.
The country's top security official, Horst Seehofer, said Thursday some 5.3 million crimes were reported in Germany in 2020.
That's a decrease of 2.3% compared to the previous year — driven by a significant drop in burglaries, robberies and auto thefts — continuing a downward trend since 2016, when the number of reported cases was about 6.3 million. “The development is decidedly positive,” Seehofer told reporters in Berlin.