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Tensions Rise in Germany Over Handling of Mass Sexual Assaults in Cologne
The Guardian reports:
A ferocious debate has erupted in Germany over the handling of mass sexual assaults and muggings carried out by groups of young males during New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne, amid accusations of a police and media cover-up over fears of whipping up anti-foreigner sentiment in the wake of the migrant crisis.
About 100 complaints have now been made to police, two-thirds of which are linked to sexual assault, including two rapes. According to police and witnesses, the perpetrators were of north African and Arab appearance, although neither the identity nor origin of any of them has so far been established.
If you're not already feeling queasy enough be sure to read the link "Asian sex-grooming gangs in the UK" in the article. Apparently you can find similar stories from all over the UK, these sexual crimes against underage girls perpetrated by muslims are sickeningly common.
Conspiracy of Silence - or Sensationalist Reporting?
There are a number of marginal news sites posting stories out of Europe these days, mostly from Germany, Sweden, as well as other claims made regarding Finland and the UK. The claims all center around a huge increase in rapes by immigrants, outright take over of public train stations, and mass groping of women passing through the stations.
According to these reports, the incidents started in midsummer and continue to this day, but the local news organizations have refused to publish reports of these incidents even after arrests have been made. Often police are accused of withholding the news of any complaints or arrests for months.
The clear implication, more often implied than stated is that the national leaders who went public in their pledges to accept refugees from the middle east war zones as well as northern Africa are leaning on main stream news outlets to suppress news reports of these rapes and sexual assaults. This suppression, if it exists, also appears to extend to the US press.
The assaults aren't limited to European women, but also include women in the immigrant shelters, some as young as 16. The immigrant shelters population in Munich is 80% male. But not all the alleged perpetrators are migrants from the recent wave of mass migrations over the summer and fall. Some are earlier immigrants from North Africa who don't necessarily live in the camps.
Finally some reports are leaking into the western press in the US, such as this brief report in the New York Times about events on New Years Eve. That same event was reported by a couple of the British tabloids.
Many reports are in German, Here and Here. (Google Translate does well with these pages). Others are in English such as this one and this one.
Are any Soylentils living in the EU near refugee centers seeing these problems? Is it being reported? Is it being repressed? Or is the whole thing a made up issue by biased articles in fringe news sites?
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @05:48PM
The clear implication, more often implied than stated is that the national leaders who went public in their pledges to accept refugees from the middle east war zones as well as northern Africa are leaning on main stream news outlets to suppress news reports of these rapes and sexual assaults. This suppression, if it exists, also appears to extend to the US press.
That's some pretty advanced conspiracy you've got going there... Do you really attribute that much competence to those who are "leaning on main stream news outlets to suppress news reports"? I mean, that's quite an elaborate scheme they've got going there. If they are that competent, countries wouldn't be in the shape they are currently in because they'd be governed by people who can actually get shit done!
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:05PM
These 'news' outlets should be seen for what they really are: advertising peddlers. They will tailor their message to their audience in order to not drive it away and make them 'consume' more advertising.
If your audience doesn't want to hear about X but does want to hear about Y, then you don't need to be leaned upon by anyone for you to twist yourself into reporting about Y and not about X. It's a form of self-censorship.
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Friday January 08 2016, @07:06PM
Nevertheless, why did the Internet and foreign media report the grope-robbery days before the German press picked it up? If there is a conspiracy it is the self-censorship of these sorts of events by leftists in the media who simply wish these events, contrary to their worldview, did not happen.
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:20PM
Maybe because "the internet" "reports" 99.9% BS. You want the German press to pick up and run with every POS story as soon as it hears it?
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday January 08 2016, @09:05PM
Even abovetopsecret.com - hang out of the paranoid end of the worlders - didn't seem to have anything on it until Jan 4th, when the police issued a press conference, the local media covered it, and it swiftly went worldwide. What blogs were covering it before Jan 4th?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @09:43PM
There are much faster sources of news for these things.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday January 08 2016, @09:53PM
Never wrong for long?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @10:24PM
January 3 - " rel="url2html-25876">http://pamelageller.com/2016/01/large-muslim-mobs-massive-sexual-harassment-on-new-years-eve-in-germany.html/
January 2 - " rel="url2html-25876">http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=1b0_1451750821
January 2 - " rel="url2html-25876">http://www.ksta.de/koeln/-sexuelle-belaestigungen-sote-in-der-silvesternacht-,15187530,33047730.html?piano_d=1
I think there were already reports on January 1 but I only found out on Jan 2.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Saturday January 09 2016, @12:27AM
So you've linked to the fact "a daily newspaper published in Cologne, Germany, and has the largest circulation in the Cologne/Bonn Metropolitan Region" covered the story is a cover up?
However the racist thugs over at Breitbart [breitbart.com] didn't get around to spewing their hatred until Jan 4th, same time the rest of the media woke up.
I see no evidence of a media coverup. I see a lot of eviedence on people blaming the recent influx of migrants over the summer despite the evidence seeming to show it wasn't them.
* The majority of people committing these crimes are muslim
* The VAST majority of muslim immigrants do not commit these crimes
Perhaps we should ban catholic priests, because
* the majority of boys being raped are by catholic priests
* The VAST majority of catholic priests do not rape boys
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 09 2016, @01:14AM
Perhaps we should ban catholic priests, because
* the majority of boys being raped are by catholic priests
* The VAST majority of catholic priests do not rape boys
* The VAST majority of rapist priests were protected by the CAtholic church for hundreds of years before legal authorities finally put enough pressure on the church to stop protecting them.
We see the same thing in our police forces today - bad cops are protected by their "brothers".
And, we see the same thing in Islam - although a Muslim might condemn the conduct of another Muslim, he will close ranks with, and protect his "brothers".
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Saturday January 09 2016, @01:29AM
That closing ranks is a problem, and it's more of a problem in the police and the church than in the muslim community (where people are reporting their children to the authorities). However it doesn't mean that we should ban police officers (the majority of whom are not guilty of closing ranks), or priests (who likewise as a wholedon't cover up)
If 1 in 10,000 commit the crime, and 100 people know about each crime and cover it up, that's still 99% of the population who are perfectly innocent.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 09 2016, @01:53AM
I think you underestimate the problem in every population - police, Catholic, Islam, neighborhood gangs, or whatever. All populations will close ranks and protect their own against outsiders. It is normal human behaviour, and you can witness it in your own neighborhood. Siblings may fight among themselves, but they will protect each other from outsiders.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @04:34AM
It's understandable that the media and police "cover up" this event because it's embarrassing and the facts as they occurred are quite inflammatory, especially given recent world events. So I don't blame them for it, but both police and media ADMIT they delayed releasing the true extent of the event for exactly those reasons - the police do not want more trouble and the media don't want to be blamed for same if it eventuates. It's not a conspiracy theory, it's just the usual mediocre standard that abounds. All news services routinely spin stories way out of proportion or bury them, depending where the money is coming from. Yes the news of the event was available full 2 days before most people in the US woke up to the fact, but the tinfoil mob did a good service by blowing this one up for all to see, because clearly the intention was to bury the story, and the distorting effect that mass migrations have on society needs to be discussed.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @09:40PM
It's not governments that lean on media. It's not even media that leans on governments. Neither are particularly good at their job, evidenced by the fact that social and independent media is running rings around them.
It's corporations/businessmen (not all, just some) that are leaning so heavily on (and owning) government and mainstream media (including government owned) that public discourse is practically entirely controlled by them. This may appear as speculation but if you have actually worked in either of these spheres of life you will have seen it for yourself. If you happen to work in these fields, do a bit of background research on your colleagues and you'll see who the shills are.
And another thing. Stop branding people with "conspiracy" and other taboos, it straight away discredits anything you have to say.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 09 2016, @05:32AM
It's not governments that lean on media.
Actually governments have a long history of leaning hard on media. Given this wide divergence from reality, there's not much point to anything else you had to say.
Even if we were in a world of corporations, we would still have that the largest and most lucrative corporations would be the large governments of the world. They have the vast, captive revenue streams, the power to create rent seeking on a whim, monopoly on force, etc.
Once again, I see profound ignorance of what power is. It's not money, though even if it were, governments would be powerful just on that basis alone!