#celje is also the only city ('city') on the list with fewer than 100k population

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When compared to U.S. data, European cities can be considered much safer in terms of murder rates. Europe does not contain any of the top 50 cities in the world with the highest murder rate. The "deadliest” city in Europe has less than one-tenth of the homicides per 100,000 than the U.S. city with the highest homicide rate.

Here are the 10 European cities with the highest homicide rates, according to a report UN Office on Drugs and Crime released in 2019:

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6. Celje, Slovenia

Celje, the third-largest city in Slovenia, had a murder rate of 2.6 per 100,000 in 2017, however, it carried a population of only about 38,000 that year within city limits.

So Fox News declared Celje the 6th deadliest city in Europe, even though if you do the math, you’ll find that in a town of 40k people a murder rate of 2.6 per 100k people per year amounts to one (1) murder happening in the whole of 2017.

And then the town’s Police Department came out to say that they don’t have any murders on record for 2017, only an attempted manslaughter – which means that no one actually died ...

So yes ..... one of the deadliest cities ..... where one person a year almost dies ........

Anyway, to save you from having to open the article, here’s the “deadly” list:

10. Amsterdam, Netherlands: 2.2 murders per 100,000 people 9. Budapest, Hungary: 2.2 8. Tampere, Finland: 2.2 7. Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom: 2.4 6. Celje, Slovenia: 2.6 5. Debrecen, Hungary: 3.0 4. Marseille, France: 3.5 3. Klaipeda, Lithuania: 3.9 2. Vilnius, Lithuania: 3.9 1. Kaunas, Lithuania: 5.4