French survey: Hungary is one of the safest places in Europe

Hungary is now among Europe’s safest countries partly thanks to the work of the National Crime Prevention Council, an interior ministry official said on the occasion of Crime Prevention Day on Wednesday.

Bence Rétvári, the ministry’s parliamentary state secretary, also attributed moves to strengthen the legal system and the police, as well as the high level of employment, to the fall of recorded crimes by a third in a decade, noting 447,000 crimes in a single year a decade ago as against 154,000 in the past year.

Only 4 percent of people in Hungary do not feel safe, a French survey has found, compared with 15 percent in Germany, 20 percent in Belgium, 24 percent in France and 58 percent in Sweden, he said.

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Rétvári said crime prevention at the national borders in connection with organised crime linked to migration was also a factor in protecting Hungarians from becoming victims of crime.

Source: MTI