In Germany there are 80 stabbings per day and over 1,000 deaths per year from knife violence.

Omissions

• The '80 per day' figure is only valid under the BKA's very broad definition of 'Messerangriff' (any offense where the attack was committed with a knife, including non-injury threats and attempts). Calling these 'Messerstechereien' (stabbings) overstates the severity: the number of knife attacks within violent crime was 15,741 in 2024 (≈43/day), and completed stabbings with injury are a smaller subset still.
• The second part of the claim — 'over 1,000 deaths per year' from knife violence — is not supported by any source found in the searches. The BKA statistics located concern recorded knife-attack offenses, not fatalities. No primary or secondary source substantiating roughly 1,000 annual knife deaths in Germany could be located (search limit of 4 queries reached); a widely circulated fact-check indicates the 80/day BKA figure does not mean 80 serious violent knife attacks daily.
• The claim conflates two different metrics: total recorded knife-attack offenses (~29,000/year) with completed stabbings and deaths, creating the impression of a far more lethal situation than the police statistics show.
• Data sources: PKS 2024 (published spring 2025) and PKS 2025 (published spring 2026) were both available before the session date of 2026-07-06.

Sources

• PrimaryBundeskriminalamt (BKA) — Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2025Die Zahl der Messerangriffe liegt insgesamt weiterhin auf einem hohen Niveau: Insgesamt: 29.243 Fälle (+0,8 %). Im Zusammenhang mit Gewaltkriminalität zeigt ... (29,243 knife-attack offenses recorded in Germany in 2025, ≈80 per day)
• PrimaryBundeskriminalamt (BKA) — Polizeiliche Kriminalstatistik 2024Insgesamt erfasste die Polizei in Deutschland 2024 zu 29.014 Straftaten einen „Messerangriff“. 54,3 Prozent davon entfallen auf Gewaltkriminalität, 43,3 Prozent ... (29,014 knife-attack offenses recorded in Germany in 2024, ≈79.5 per day)
• PrimaryBundesministerium des Innern (BMI) — press release on PKS 2024Die Gewaltkriminalität stieg im vergangenen Jahr um 1,5 Prozent auf 217.277 Fälle an. In 15.741 Fällen wurde ein Messerangriff erfasst ... (15,741 knife-attack cases within violent crime in 2024, ≈43 per day)
• SecondaryMediendienst Integration — MesserkriminalitätIm Jahr 2025 zählte das Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) rund 29.200 Straftaten als Messerangriffe. Als solche gelten „Tathandlungen, bei denen der Angriff mit einem Messer begangen wurde“ (≈29,200 knife-attack offenses in 2025, ≈80 per day; definition includes any offense where the attack was committed with a knife)