EU holiday hotspots - if you don’t want to be murdered, raped, mugged, or have your car stolen

Crime rates in the EU vary dramatically, revealed by latest official data

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Facts4EU.Org presents its vacation advice based on the worst five countries for each crime

Judging from the latest figures for police-recorded crime in the EU, there isn’t one country where you’ll be safe from every type of serious offence that could be committed against you.

This analysis from the Facts4EU think-tank suggests that it’s better to decide which crime you most want to avoid and book your holiday in the location with the lowest incidence recorded. The only downside is that you may find the safest resort for your least-favourite crime is the hotspot for falling victim to your second-least favourite.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org Summary

Major crimes – Top 5 Worst EU Countries
by numbers of police-recorded offences in 2023

In this slightly irreverent set of lists for the “Top 5 Worst EU Destinations for…”, we look at crime rates per 100,000 of population, as well as revealing some overall numbers. Here is what the official figures show, but please note that we caveat these figures below the table.

Which countries make most appearances in the ‘Top 5 Worst’ list?

This list may surprise many readers, but as we explain below there are some possible reasons for this.

What constitutes a crime and how are they defined?

Our list of types of crime below was complicated by those which do not appear to have a reasonably common definition attached.

For example, when Scandinavian countries such as Sweden changed their rape laws, so that a couple almost require an explicit “I now consent in advance to have sex with you” condition, the number of rape allegations rose many-fold in a single year. Countries which retained a more traditional version of what constitutes rape therefore appear to be much less threatening to women than might be the case.

Observations

‘Non-crimes’

We looked in vain in the EU’s lists for a ‘non-crime’, as in ‘non-crime hate incident’. In this, it appears that the police in the EU are ahead of PC Plod in the UK, as they seem to feel that if something is a non-crime then it isn’t a crime – and they can go back to drinking their espressos.

The closest we can come to is in France, where we know of certain restaurants in the 16th arrondissement of Paris where ordering the wrong wine with your main course could constitute a ‘non-crime taste incident’ and necessitate the Maitre D’ calling the local Gendarmerie to have you given a formal warning before being escorted off the premises.

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[ Sources: European Commission (Eurostat) ] Politicians and journalists can contact us for details, as ever.

Brexit Facts4EU.Org, Fri 25 Apr 2025

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Reader Comments 11

1. Sparky , Friday, April 25, 2025, 07:22:

And what about knife crime? 16,789 Offences in 2024. One knife crime every 30 minutes, a 16% increase on 2023. Oh! That’s in London.

2. Gazzablack , Friday, April 25, 2025, 08:57:

1, sparkless
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Ah yes London , the city where 41% of it's population were born outside of the UK according to the 2021 census.

3. Old Albion , Friday, April 25, 2025, 09:49:

Yup knife crime, where nearly all victims are young black men. Where nearly all offenders are young black men. Where black society howls racism when the police try to prevent stabbings.
Welcome to the far-Lefts DIE. ( No pun intended)

4. NH , Friday, April 25, 2025, 10:13:

Free movement and the ECHR have been a gift to Organised crime Gangs. They have allowed crime to become internationalised with gang members able to move easily from country to country without any resistance. The police say there are now approx. 5000 serious organised crime gangs operating in Europe. In the UK we have seen a huge increase in organised shop looting by Romanian Gangs and Albanians now dominate the illegal drug market.
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In London knife crime is highly concentrated into into certain regions and usually involves drug crime gangs. Drug use then results in other crimes such as burglary, theft, muggings etc. Fortunately for politicians they do not live in these areas so they are not effected and they seem more concerned about being accused of racism.

5. LuxuryBalloon , Friday, April 25, 2025, 13:54:

Is Facts4EU implying that we should be going on holiday to the USA instead (as no gun culture, murders, mass school shootings and car-jacking)? Or is Facts4EU implying we should be too scared to go abroad and stay within Brexit Britain?

6. terence patrick hewett , Saturday, April 26, 2025, 01:08:

London Mayor Khant, is a crime in itself. Thatch would have given him less time to pack his bags than she gave Red Ken.

7. Sparky , Saturday, April 26, 2025, 08:05:

2 G. And of course that growth in the London population started rising significantly in the 1930’s so it’s all the fault of the EU.

8. Gazzablack , Saturday, April 26, 2025, 08:20:

7, sparkless
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London's population peaked in the 1930's at about 8.6 million in 1939.
For the next half century it fell steadily to 6.8 million in the 1980's, before rising again to over 9.1 million now.
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So we can throw some blame in the direction of the EU.

9. Sparky , Sunday, April 27, 2025, 07:58:

8 G. Good try. The decline was due to deindustrialisation, especially around the Docklands area. The increase was due to the growth in the financial and services sector released by Margaret Thatcher. The big impact of immigration on London was from the British Empire.
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A few years ago someone told me they voted Leave because of the dominance of London; rediculous!

10. Gazzablack , Sunday, April 27, 2025, 10:24:

9, sparkless
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You said the population started rising in the 1930's, it didn't
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Romania is the source of the second highest number of non UK born residents of London, followed by Poland in third.
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London is also home to people for the French, Italian and Brazilian colonies.
(I read that most Albanians living in London previously lived in Italy)
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A few years ago someone told me they voted remain because we'd all die of starvation if we left. Ridiculous

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