In the video below, the speaker tells the audience that there are forty assaults on Germans by “refugees” every day. When MissPiggy translated it, I asked her if there were any source for the statistic other than the man speaking to the crowd in Offenburg. It seemed a plausible figure to me, but I wondered where it had come from.

MissPiggy did some digging, and found the source: official government statistics. And the official number of daily assaults per day wasn’t forty; it was considerably more. The speaker was actually low-balling it.

More on that in a minute. First, here’s the video from Offenburg. Many thanks to Vlad Tepes for the subtitling:

Now for the government report. It showed that as of 2017, there were on average more than one hundred assaults committed by migrants against Germans every day.

Many thanks to MissPiggy for translating this one, too, and to Vlad again for the subtitling:

Video transcript #1:

00:00 More and more people are waking up and more understand 00:05 that this cannot go on any longer! 00:08 What we have experienced this week 00:12 this awful event here in Offenburg, that we have had to endure, 00:16 we have — still — every day 00:19 forty (40) assaults from so-called migrants or refugees 00:24 perpetrated against Germans. Every day! Forty (40). 00:30 Think about that for a moment. 00:33 For-ty (40) assaults every day!



Video transcript #2: