‘Sex and the EU’: The surge in sex crimes since EU’s doors were thrown open

In 10 years, EU’s sexual violence offences up nearly twice, rapes up 2½ times

Has this been heading our way in the UK, via France?

On 29 April 2026 the EU’s official statistics agency released some very worrying figures on sexual violence and rape in the bloc. What’s going on? And is it coming our way?

It was in 2015 that Germany’s Chancellor, Angela Merkel, known by many in her country as ‘Mutti’ (‘Mummy’), threw her country’s doors wide open to migrants with the famous expression “Wir schaffen das.” (‘We can do this.’)

Free movement for all

The problem was that Frau Merkel’s open borders offer meant that the huge influx was not only experienced in her own country, but in the other EU countries too. Such is the impact of ‘freedom of movement’.

The second problem is that after her departure, Germany hasn’t in fact “managed it”. The mayors in towns across the country have been up in arms against the Federal government because of the load which migrants have placed on local communities.

In collaboration with our partners at , and Stand for Our Sovereignty (SovereignUK.org), and at The Campaign for an Independent Britain (CIBUK.Org) think-tank Facts4EU has shared our findings exclusively with the People’s Channel, GB News.

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Here are the headlines

Let’s stop and think about that for a moment

In the last year for which we have data: 2024:

• Over ¼ million people were subjected to sexual violence in the EU
• The vast majority were women.
• Of these, nearly 100,000 were raped, and this excludes minors.

That’s in just one year. And the numbers just keep on rising.

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Below are the proportionate increases in the EU27 across the bloc.

The area of sex is very tricky, when trying to analyse changing data

A critical factor we should point out is that definitions matter a lot when analysing data. When it comes to sex and in particular the crimes related to it, this is especially true. Not only do definitions change, but so does awareness and – importantly – the likelihood of certain crimes being reported.

There are also countries (eg in Scandinavia) where ‘serious sex crimes’ would not be recognised as such by most people in the UK.

We therefore caveat the above data and would say that it’s the trends that matter, and overall numbers.

As there has recently been research carried out on this by others including the Centre for Migration Control, we hope that readers will review these sources.

The reasons for the increase in the EU

We wish to make it clear once again that all figures on sex crimes are unreliable. Nevertheless we have presented the official data. It does seem to be more than a coincidence that the rise happens after Angela Merkel first opened the EU’s doors to illegal migrants in their millions.

She did so unilaterally in 2015 with no agreement from the EU (and none from her own people), and – because this was the German Chancellor – the Commission went along with it. She first used the infamous phrase “Wir schaffen das” or loosely “We can do this” at a Federal press conference at the end of August of that year and was still saying it nearly a year later, until the emergence of the problems attached finally began to be reported.

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Observations

The events of 2015 and 2016 in particular was a time when we saw what we can only describe as mass hysteria across many ‘liberal’ countries in the EU. Readers may remember seeing the British TV reports of Germans – often young women – waiting at train stations carrying bouquets of flowers and chocolates, ready to welcome bemused young Arab and North African men.

It was at the end of that year, during New Year’s festivities, when mass rapes took place in public places at night. The event which is particularly remembered took place in Koln (Cologne). For days there was virtually a media blackout from Germany’s left-wing media and it’s socialist government and it wasn’t until more than six months later that the police officially confirmed that 1,200 women had been victims of rape and sexual assault, attacked by large groups of migrants on New Year’s Eve 2015. Sadly, Koln was not unique.

Since 2016 the Germans have been busy trying to shut the stable door but this would appear to be rather too late.

There are of course other reasons for the increase in sex crimes, which we have stated above. Separating cause and effect is always a difficult task and doubtless there will be many who will say that the millions of young men flooding into the EU in those years have had nothing to do with the increase.

We have simply produced our charts as these are fairly stark, and readers can make up their own minds whether there might be a connection.

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