{"id":318194,"date":"2025-11-09T07:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T07:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318194"},"modified":"2025-11-10T08:24:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T08:24:26","slug":"italy-foreigners-commit-43-of-sexual-crimes-60-of-robberies-and-thefts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=318194","title":{"rendered":"Italy: Foreigners commit 43% of sexual crimes, 60% of robberies and thefts"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Remix News \u2013 Nov 4, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>In yet another example of the massive foreign crime wave engulfing Europe, new data shows that foreigners in Italy are vastly overrepresented in violent crimes and predatory crimes such as robbery and sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 data shows that a significant number of arrests in Italy are targeting foreigners, making up 34.7 percent of arrests.<\/p>\n<p>However, when it comes to more serious predatory crimes, the figure is much higher. For public street robberies, foreign make up 60.1 percent of suspects and for robberies in total, it is 52.3 percent. Foreigners are responsible for 61 percent of burglaries, and 69 percent of pickpocketing cases, according to new crime data analyzed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilsole24ore.com\/art\/furti-scippi-e-rapine-oltre-sei-arrestati-10-sono-stranieri-AHVXA3QD\">Italian newspaper Il Sole 24<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For sexual assault, foreigners are responsible for 43 percent of all such cases.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"82bnQ1I6ZQ\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/italy-young-immigrants-commit-nearly-1-out-of-every-2-crimes-in-their-age-group\/\">Italy: Young immigrants commit nearly 1 out of every 2 crimes in their age group<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Italy: Young immigrants commit nearly 1 out of every 2 crimes in their age group&#8221; &#8212; Remix News\" src=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/italy-young-immigrants-commit-nearly-1-out-of-every-2-crimes-in-their-age-group\/embed\/#?secret=0uyk88p9X3#?secret=82bnQ1I6ZQ\" data-secret=\"82bnQ1I6ZQ\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>This is despite foreigners making up only a small share of the Italian population. According to the Ismu Ets report, as of Jan. 1, 2024, there were\u00a05.7 million\u00a0foreign people in Italy. Of these,\u00a05.3 million\u00a0were residents, making up 9 percent of the Italian population. This is compared to 8.2 percent in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>For drug dealing, foreigners are responsible for 39 percent of cases, 24.5 percent of car thefts, 29 percent of smuggling cases, and 23.7 percent of homicides.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"xubbMS8gdR\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/meloni-ill-be-called-racist-but-foreigners-are-overrepresented-in-violent-crimes-against-women\/\">Meloni: &#8216;I&#8217;ll be called racist, but foreigners are overrepresented in violent crimes against women&#8217;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Meloni: &#8216;I&#8217;ll be called racist, but foreigners are overrepresented in violent crimes against women&#8217;&#8221; &#8212; Remix News\" src=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/meloni-ill-be-called-racist-but-foreigners-are-overrepresented-in-violent-crimes-against-women\/embed\/#?secret=2qduh9CCci#?secret=xubbMS8gdR\" data-secret=\"xubbMS8gdR\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Italy does not track the foreign background of Italian suspects, but in recent years, a many high-profile cases have involved exactly these type of citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The data is also skewed for a number of reasons. While citizens from other European countries like Austria and France are also counted as foreigners, they make up a very small percentage of foreign criminals, with suspects from Africa and North Africa even more vastly overrepresented.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately\u00a0321,000\u00a0of these foreigners were illegal migrants, making up a very small share of the overall Italian population.<\/p>\n<p>Italian journalist Francesco Totolo, citing this data, wrote: \u201cNearly 1 in 2 sexual assaults is committed by the 9% of the resident population in Italy, foreigners. Thefts, pickpocketing and robberies: over 6 out of 10 arrested are foreigners.\u201d<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"it\">Analisi del Sole 24 sulla criminalit\u00e0 in Italia (e la correlazione tra criminalit\u00e0 e immigrazione)<\/p>\n<p>\uf449 quasi 1 violenza sessuale su 2 \u00e8 commessa dal 9% della popolazione residente in Italia, gli stranieri<\/p>\n<p>\uf449 furti, scippi e rapine: oltre 6 arrestati su 10 sono stranieri <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/etuq0reqKK\">pic.twitter.com\/etuq0reqKK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Francesca Totolo (@fratotolo2) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/fratotolo2\/status\/1985270815332397323?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Irregular immigrants \u2014 those without a valid residence document or with an expired permit \u2014 represent 5.6 percent of foreigners in Italy and are thought to have a greater impact on crime than legally resident immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>One influential study on the subject (Barbagli, Colombo, 2011), which analyzed data from 1988 to 2009, found that\u00a070 percent of crimes committed in Italy by immigrants were committed by illegal migrants.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"gbdcXXFgFk\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/11141-italian-women-raped-by-foreigners-since-2018-new-figures-claim\/\">11,141 Italian women raped by foreigners since 2018, new figures claim<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;11,141 Italian women raped by foreigners since 2018, new figures claim&#8221; &#8212; Remix News\" src=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/11141-italian-women-raped-by-foreigners-since-2018-new-figures-claim\/embed\/#?secret=VDkVDD9LGW#?secret=gbdcXXFgFk\" data-secret=\"gbdcXXFgFk\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Paolo Pinotti, vice-rector of Bocconi University in Milan and founder of the Clean study center on crime, this dynamic remains true today, although Interior Ministry data does not disaggregate between regular and irregular immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Pinotti suggests that if this breakdown were available, it would show that the disproportionate share of foreigners in total arrests is mainly due to\u00a0illegal migrants who commit small predatory crimes for economic reasons, or even crimes such as sexual violence, https:\/\/rmx.news\/crime\/milan-is-out-of-control-due-to-migrant-crime-italian-conservatives-claim-after-illegal-migrant-stabs-policeman\/<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForeigners who are regularly present in the territory, however, they have a propensity for crime in line with that of Italians,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0Paolo Pinotti, vice-rector of Bocconi University in Milan and founder of the Clean study center on crime, this dynamic remains true today, although Interior Ministry data does not disaggregate between regular and irregular immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Pinotti suggests that if this breakdown were available, it would show that the disproportionate share of foreigners in total arrests is mainly due to\u00a0illegal migrants who commit small predatory crimes for economic reasons, or even crimes such as sexual violence, https:\/\/rmx.news\/crime\/milan-is-out-of-control-due-to-migrant-crime-italian-conservatives-claim-after-illegal-migrant-stabs-policeman\/<\/p>\n<p>\u201cForeigners who are regularly present in the territory, however, they have a propensity for crime in line with that of Italians,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>The province with the greatest weight of foreigners in the total number of arrestees is\u00a0Prato (62 percent), a figure nearly double the national average. This is partially explained by the high percentage (around 25 percent) of foreign residents in the Tuscan province.<\/p>\n<p>Other areas with high percentages include the large metropolitan areas of\u00a0Milan (55.8 percent)\u00a0and\u00a0Florence (56 percent), where street crimes like thefts and robberies have multiplied. Border territories also show high figures: Imperia (54.8 percent), Bolzano (54.7 percent), Trieste (51.5 percent), and Gorizia (48.8 percent).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rmx.news\/article\/italy-foreigners-commit-43-of-sexual-crimes-60-of-robberies-and-thefts\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just like other Western European countries, Italy is facing a migrant crime crisis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":318196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-migrant-crisis"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318222,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318194\/revisions\/318222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/318196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}