Chinanews.com, August 16th. According to Euronet's report on the 16th, the Italian Ministry of the Interior released a report on social crime rates and illegal immigration in 2020. It pointed out that under the special background of the new crown epidemic, the social crime rate is higher than that of 2019. The year-on-year decline was nearly 20%, but the number of illegal immigrants and refugees has risen sharply.
According to reports, statistics show that as of early August 2020, the Italian police had received a total of 1912344 reports, a decrease of 18.2% from the same period in 2019.
Among the various crime cases that occurred in 2020, the crime rate of theft decreased by 26% year-on-year, robbery decreased by 21.1%, and fraud decreased by 11.3%. The number of murders dropped from 334 in 2019 to 278, and most of the murders during the epidemic were family homicides, and 70% of the victims were women.
At the same time, online fraud was relatively active during the COVID-19 ban, and the crime rate increased by 20% year-on-year. The country has been banned for three months and a total of 61,204 online fraud cases have occurred.
While the overall decline in social crime rates in 2020, the number of illegal immigrants and refugees has begun to rise sharply. As of July 31, 2020, a total of 21,618 refugees and illegal immigrants entered the country illegally. Compared with 8,691 in the same period in 2019, the number of illegal immigrants and refugees has increased by 148.7 percent.
The report pointed out that refugees and illegal immigrants who entered Italy illegally have a higher proportion of immigrants from Tunisia. Other illegal immigrants and refugees are mainly from Bangladesh, Côte d’Ivoire, Algeria and Pakistan. (Lin Zhuqing)