EuroVerify : y a-t-il un lien entre immigration et criminalité en Irlande ?
La chaîne américaine de droite Fox News a suscité de vives réactions en Irlande en affirmant que Dublin est devenue l'une des villes les plus dangereuses d'Europe, tout en laissant entendre qu'il existerait un lien entre la criminalité et l'immigration.
00:00Debunking false claims about migration and crime in Ireland.
00:07A segment that aired on right-wing American channel Fox News in early August has sparked a lively debate in Ireland.
00:14Ireland last year is seeing its biggest population surge since 2008, largely due to positive net migration.
00:22The country also seeing, by the way, a rise in crime.
00:25In 2024, Ireland experienced its largest year-on-year population gain since 2008, with a population rise of 98,700, according to the country's Central Statistics Office.
00:37However, the crime and robbery statistics presented by Fox are misleading, given that the country's Statistics Office does not classify crimes under the broad labels of robbery and violent crime.
00:47The 18% figure cited by Fox appears to refer to an increase in robbery, extortion and hijacking from 2023 to 2024,
00:56while the 10% figure refers to an increase in crime incidents involving weapons and explosives offences.
01:03What the segment fails to mention is that crime has decreased in other areas such as homicide and sexual offences.
01:09Fox News also made this claim.
01:11Murder and assault attempts are surging.
01:14However, the network did not provide a time frame for this claim and Euroverify found no evidence to support it,
01:20when comparing crime from 2025 and 2024 with recent years.
01:25During the segment, Fox also implied that there is a causality between rising migration and an alleged crime increase in Ireland,
01:31placing both figures side by side.
01:34However, it provided no evidence to support this,
01:36while Ireland's Department of Justice told Euroverify that rising immigration over the past decade
01:41has not led to a rise in crime, saying there is no credible evidence to suggest a causal link.
01:47For more fact-checks and debunking, head to euronews.com.
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