Dublin tops Berlin, Rome and Paris on rate of homicide

DUBLIN is in the top half of the European table for the number of homicides per head of population.

The figure for the capital city shows there were 2.26 homicides per 100,000 people, with a rate of 1.28 for Ireland as a whole.

The homicide rates in European capitals varied from as low as zero for Valletta, capital of Malta, to as high as 9.75 for Tallinn, capital of Estonia. Dublin, however, scored a higher rate than cities such as Berlin, Madrid, Rome and Paris, but was relatively close to Edinburgh (2.41) and London (2.64).