German arrest-warrant data shows most wanted suspects are not German citizens, fueling the rise of anti-immigration parties across Europe.

• Of 148,000 outstanding arrest warrants in Germany, only 11% are held by people with German citizenship alone, in a country that is 81% German.
• The numbers only came out because an AfD lawmaker filed a parliamentary question — they are not published routinely.
• Romanians, Poles, Georgians and Turks make up the largest foreign groups, and border police have picked up 17,500 wanted people since late 2024.
• Britain stopped publishing comparable figures over a decade ago, and now says nationality is not recorded centrally in arrest or conviction data.
• Parties like the AfD, Le Pen's movement in France, and Farage in the UK are gaining on exactly this issue, while mainstream parties avoid the data.

Outlook: Expect more pressure for permanent border controls in Germany and more electoral gains for hard-right parties as the numbers circulate.