Protest against gang assaults on women, 1/9/16, BBC From the section Europe
Some held up signs demanding action
from Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Mrs Merkel has expressed outrage over
the "disgusting attacks" and said everything must be done to find
those responsible.
Witnesses and police said that the men
involved were of Arab or North African appearance.
Political leaders have warned Germans
not to link the violence to the influx of more than one million refugees and
migrants in the past year.
"It's completely improper... to
link a group that appeared to come from North Africa with the refugees,"
Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker said, following talks with police.
Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere
agreed there should not be any general suspicion towards refugees at least
"at this stage of the investigation".
"But if North Africans were the
perpetrators, for which there is some indication, there should not be a taboo
and people should not gloss over it."
The scale of the attacks, involving
groups of drunk and aggressive young men, has shocked the country.
There is an intense debate in Germany
about refugees and migrants who arrived in record numbers last year, many of
them fleeing the conflict in Syria.
'New dimension'
Women have made at least 90 criminal
complaints to police about harassment by gangs at Cologne's main railway
station on Thursday night.
At least one woman in Cologne was
reportedly raped and many were groped, including a volunteer policewoman. Women were also targeted in Hamburg
and Stuttgart in similar attacks, but on a smaller scale.
Up to 300 people, mostly women, demonstrated against the violence near the
scene of the attacks on Tuesday evening. Some held placards reading: "Mrs Merkel! Where are you? What do you
say? This alarms us!"
Police were pictured stopping and questioning men near Cologne's central
station on Tuesday.
However, the city's police chief, Wolfgang Albers, said no arrests had yet
been made over the New Year's Eve attacks. "We don't currently have any suspects, so we don't know who the
perpetrators were," he said.
"All we know is that the police at the scene perceived that it was
mostly young men aged 18 to 35 from the Arab or North African region."
He called it "a completely new dimension of crime" and rejected
criticism of his force's handling on the night. Justice Minister Heiko Maas warned against using the attacks to bolster
anti-refugee sentiment.
"In criminal law what's important is proving a crime, and everyone is
equal before the law," he said.
"It doesn't matter where someone comes from, it matters what they did
and that we can prove it."
Mrs Merkel called Ms Reker on Tuesday to discuss the attacks.
She said everything must be done "to find the perpetrators as quickly
and comprehensively as possible and punish them, regardless of their origin or
background".
The mayor promised preventive measures ahead of Cologne's carnival in
February, when hundreds of thousands of revelers are expected on the streets.
One man described how his partner and 15-year-old daughter were surrounded
by a crowd outside the station and he was unable to help. "The attackers
grabbed her and my partner's breasts and groped them between their legs."
Most of the crimes reported to police were robberies. A British woman visiting Cologne said fireworks had been thrown at her
group by men who spoke neither German nor English. "They were trying to
hug us, kiss us. One man stole my friend's bag," she told the BBC.
"Another tried to get us into his 'private taxi'. I've been in scary
and even life-threatening situations and I've never experienced anything like
that."
Merkel on Cologne sex assaults: don’t
blame refugees. by Ann Corcoran on 1/6/16 Invasion
of Europe news….
I wasn’t
planning to write about the New Years eve sexual assaults of dozens of women in
the German city of Cologne because it is being widely reported, but a couple of
things that are so outrageous about it are worth mentioning. By the way,
I am sure the news was no great surprise to you!
First, the full
import of what happened only seems to have reached the wider mainstream media
days after it happened. Why? Were many just hoping no one would notice.
I think it’s a wonderful example of the great service alternative media
plays because after days of its obvious news value, I’m guessing the bigger
western media was finally shamed into reporting it. (I happened to see the
story on CNN this morning no less!)
Clearly Mama
Merkel is now desperate to tone it down because she has hundreds of thousands
of loose young men in Germany just like those accused of the violence against
women as the New Year dawned (and she invited them to Germany!).
But,
what I found most worthy of reporting is that police obviously saw it happening
and did nothing and made no arrests.
Hundreds of people have protested in the
German city of Cologne over sexual assaults and thefts carried out by groups of
men on New Year’s Eve.
Some held up
signs demanding action from Chancellor Angela Merkel. Mrs Merkel has
expressed outrage over the “disgusting attacks” and said everything must be
done to find those responsible.
Witnesses and police said that the men
involved were of Arab or North African appearance.
Political leaders have warned Germans not to link
the violence to the influx of more than one million refugees and migrants in
the past year. The
police were able to describe the assailants, but arrested no one!
“All we know is that the police at the scene
perceived that it was mostly young men aged 18 to 35 from the Arab or North
African region.”
The only
possible answer to this dereliction of duty is that political correctness, and
fear for the wider implications for Germany, caused the police to stand down.
This should scare the you-know-what out of German citizens.
https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2016/01/06/merkel-on-cologne-sex-assaults-dont-blame-refugees/
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