81.19 % of the crimes committed in the province of Las Palmas in 2022 were carried out by Spaniards . Therefore, foreigners do not commit more crimes than natives, despite the hoaxes that associate migrants with higher crime rates.
Foreigners residing in Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote and La Graciosa account for only 18.81% of criminal acts , according to the most recent figures from the National Statistics Institute.
In data, throughout 2022, 13,314 people were convicted in the province of Las Palmas for different crimes. Of these, 10,809 were Spanish.
The INE data does not break down the nationality of European criminals, but it does break down the nationality of other continents: 881 convictions were for Africans; 754 for Americans; and 63 for Asians.
The 2023 Annual Report on the situation of migrants and refugees in Spain already warned of the presence of hoaxes and misinformation that are growing around migrants. Among them, it denied, for example, that migrants were collapsing the public health system, being only 11% of patients who went to the National Health System in a survey in 2017 or that they have more social advantages.
