Around 3,000 bikes were reported as stolen in Freiburg and the neighboring districts in 2019. However, offenders were only identified in a few cases. The police advise on prevention.
The police reported a rare sense of achievement this week: In Denzlingen they caught a bicycle thief. The clearance rate for such offenses is usually in the single-digit percentage range. Last year, almost 3,000 bicycle thefts were reported to the police in the city of Freiburg and the districts of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and Emmendingen, as the authority announced when asked about BZ.
Five bicycles were stolen on average per day in Freiburg in 2019 – 1706 throughout the year, said the police spokesman Frank Fanz. These are the reported thefts, the number of unreported cases should be higher. Furthermore, the police reported 715 thefts in …
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