Terrorism fears soar in Germany amid recent Islamist attacks, migrant crisis
Germans have become far more fearful in the last year, with a possible terrorist attack, political extremism and the social effects of Europe’s migrant crisis topping their list of worries, a survey showed on Tuesday.
Just over a year before a federal election in Europe’s biggest economy, the annual study by insurer R+V showed a 10 percentage point increase in its annual “fear index” of Germans to 49 percent.
“Never before in the course of our surveys have peoples’ fears risen so drastically within a year as in 2016,” said Brigitte Roemstedt, head of the R+V Info Center which conducted the survey of 2,400 Germans.