The figures were released by the interior ministry in response to an inquiry made by the far-left Die Linke party, the paper reported Saturday. The government did not previously collect data on anti-Muslim attacks, and therefore has no point of comparison to 2016 data.
According to the data, 33 people were injured in the attacks, which were predominantly perpetrated by far-right extremists. The report also recorded 60 cases vandalism against mosques and Islamic centers, some of which were defaced with Nazi grafitti. [...]
“There is a big blind spot, because the authorities — police and prosecutors — are not yet sensitized, and therefore many cases do not appear in the statistics,” Mazyek told the paper.
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