"Hestermann's study sought to answer similar questions: "How is the perception of violence changing? How is the view of the suspects and their origins changing?" He describes different reactions he observed using the example of two attacks that took place in Munich and Mannheim in 2025: "Munich: A young Afghan man allegedly drives into a crowd, killing two people. Shortly afterwards in Mannheim: A German man also drives into a crowd, killing two random victims.""
""We are charting something like the fever curve of society," journalism professor Thomas Hestermann said of his new study, "Crime and Migration: Perception in German Media," which examined how the nationality and ethnicity of crime suspects has been reported since 2007. Hestermann's team at the Macromedia University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg compiled their 2025 findings for the Berlin-based Mediendienst Integration, a research service for journalists that focuses on migration, integration and asylum."
A 2025 study compiled by a university team for Mediendienst Integration finds that German media report the nationality or ethnicity of crime suspects far more often than police data warrant. Foreign suspects are mentioned about three times more often than their share in police statistics. The discrepancy has increased since 2014 and intensified after roughly one million migrants arrived in 2015, including refugees from Syria and many from Albania and Kosovo. Media emphasis on suspect origin alters public perception of violent crime and perceived personal risk. Comparative examples show similar lethal attacks by an Afghan and a German receiving different narrative framing.
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