German police registered far fewer attacks on refugees and asylum seekers in the first half of 2024 than in the same period last year, preliminary figures suggest. A total of 519 incidents were recorded in the first six months of the year, according to a government tally seen by dpa that was calculated in response to a parliamentary question from the hard-left Die Linke (The Left) party. According to the report, investigators recorded 1,155 assaults on refugees in the first half of last year – in the whole of 2023, the figure was 2,450. However, the Interior Ministry emphasized that the figure…