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posted by cmn32480 on Friday January 08 2016, @05:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the such-a-thing-as-too-tolerant dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Tork on Friday January 08 2016, @05:56PM

    by Tork (3914) on Friday January 08 2016, @05:56PM (#286731)

    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?

    Or is it the sort of thing where proportionally the incidents are very few in number, but people looking to create a clear and easy to identify enemy would use those reports to justify not helping people that truly need it. Or, in simpler terms: Are reports being withheld because we're all too stupid to look at them rationally.

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  • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday January 08 2016, @06:02PM

    by isostatic (365) on Friday January 08 2016, @06:02PM (#286739) Journal

    BREAKING NEWS

    99.99% of refugees do not commit sexual assaults

    BREAKING NEWS

    99.999% of refugees do not commit terror attacks

    • (Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:15PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:15PM (#286748)

      BREAKING NEWS
      Every rape committed by an immigrant is one that could have been prevented by closed borders

      BREAKING NEWS
      All [wikipedia.org]
      major British sex scandals [wikipedia.org]
      in recent history [wikipedia.org]
      have involved [wikipedia.org]
      men from Pakistani, Eritrean, [wikipedia.org]
      Somali, Kurdish [wikipedia.org]
      or Romani heritage [wikipedia.org]
      most of them Muslim [wikipedia.org]

      BREAKING NEWS
      Fathers who tried to rescue their daughters from being raped were arrested [rotherham.gov.uk]

      • (Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 08 2016, @07:03PM

        by Tork (3914) on Friday January 08 2016, @07:03PM (#286792)
        Ah, the perks of xenophobia. You can also reduce the risk of alzheimers by smoking.
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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:12PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:12PM (#286803)

          Nice ad-hominem and non-sequitur bro, but I'd rather have an actual argument instead.

          • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Tork on Friday January 08 2016, @07:27PM

            by Tork (3914) on Friday January 08 2016, @07:27PM (#286823)
            Okay. While we're negotiation terms, I'd like to speak to someone on a registered account so I can keep who says what straight. Deal? You stand by your words, right? None of this: "Oh that wasn't me that said that!" nonsense.

            The Rochdale sex gang scandal convicted 8 men of Pakistani descent. There were nearly a million Pakistanis in England when that happened. Eight out of a million people commit a crime, and you want to throw them all out. Do you have a better fitting word than 'xenophobia' for that, bro?
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            • (Score: 2, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:30PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:30PM (#286828)

              "I want to be able to ad-hominem you more accurately, register an account because I care more about who you are than what you have to say." -- Tork, 2016

              Also I can't seem to remember ever saying I wanted to 'throw them all out', do you have a citation for that? It can be any Anonymous Coward that is a parent to your comment. Protip: 'not letting them in' is not the same as 'throwing them out'.

              • (Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 08 2016, @07:41PM

                by Tork (3914) on Friday January 08 2016, @07:41PM (#286842)

                "I want to be able to ad-hominem you more accurately, register an account because I care more about who you are than what you have to say." -- Tork, 2016

                He swings... and it's another miss!

                Protip: 'not letting them in' is not the same as 'throwing them out'.

                You said the borders should have been closed to prevent the crimes from taking place. Big oops on your part, there.

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                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @08:37PM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @08:37PM (#286896)

                  [...] the borders should have been closed to prevent the crimes from taking place.

                  is NOT the same as:

                  Eight out of a million people commit a crime, and you want to throw them all out.

                  I would expect you to realize the difference between refusing admittance and ejecting.
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                  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 08 2016, @08:50PM

                    by Tork (3914) on Friday January 08 2016, @08:50PM (#286903)
                    Yes, it's a pointless distraction from the original comment you made in order to compensate for a lack of substantial rebuttal.
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                    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @04:12AM

                      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @04:12AM (#287133)

                      "Not all Germans voted for Hitler. Why are we going to war with them!!?"
                      --Grandpa Tork, 1938

                    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @08:38PM

                      by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @08:38PM (#288347)

                      Different AC here.

                      Pot, meet Kettle.

                      You are busy distracting from the original message, you know the one with all of the links to evidence that you refuse to peruse.

              • (Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 08 2016, @08:00PM

                by Tork (3914) on Friday January 08 2016, @08:00PM (#286863)
                Ask and ye shall recieve:

                Every rape committed by an immigrant is one that could have been prevented by closed borders. Also I eat boogers.

                Also you seem to have lost your will to actually have a debate here. Feel free to join back in some time.

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                • (Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 08 2016, @08:06PM

                  by Tork (3914) on Friday January 08 2016, @08:06PM (#286871)
                  You may, however, feel free to point laugh at me for responding to your post twice since I forgot to refresh. ;)
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                • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday January 08 2016, @09:53PM

                  by isostatic (365) on Friday January 08 2016, @09:53PM (#286943) Journal

                  I believe he's saying
                  "Had the borders been closed in 2013, and that closure was successful, any crimes caused by a refugee that has immigrated since 2013 would not have occurred"

                  And he's right. It's a meaningless statement, but there you go.

                  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 08 2016, @10:12PM

                    by Tork (3914) on Friday January 08 2016, @10:12PM (#286957)
                    I doubt it, the examples he linked to aren't all post-2013.
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                    • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Saturday January 09 2016, @12:31AM

                      by isostatic (365) on Saturday January 09 2016, @12:31AM (#287024) Journal

                      Look at his statement. It's a truism

                      Every rape committed by an immigrant is one that could have been prevented by closed borders.

                      Well yes, if you never had any immigrants they would never commit crime. If Germany hadn't allowed a single person to cross it's borders since 1945, only Germans would be committing crimes in Germany.

                      The following statement is equally valid. And equally useful.

                      Every rape committed by someone called Dave is one that could have been prevented by banning people called Dave.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @09:50PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @09:50PM (#286941)

              Some opinions are safer said without a big target sign stuck on your ass.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @01:03AM

              by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @01:03AM (#287049)

              Eight out of a million people commit a crime, and you want to throw them all out.

              Well, you did it for guns, so why not people too?

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @01:45AM

                by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @01:45AM (#287072)
                Unlike human beings, guns don't have a lot of use outside of killing.
                • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @03:40AM

                  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @03:40AM (#287123)

                  Of course they have uses outside of killing human beings. That is why so few as a percentage are used as tools of murder.

                  The analogy is apt.

          • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @08:14PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @08:14PM (#286880)

            > Nice ad-hominem and non-sequitur bro,

            Those two words, you keep using them, I don't think they mean what you think they mean.

        • (Score: 2) by Post-Nihilist on Friday January 08 2016, @09:17PM

          by Post-Nihilist (5672) on Friday January 08 2016, @09:17PM (#286919)

          You have a bad analogy because nicotine really reduces the risk of developing Alzheimer's, even when you account for the shorter longevity caused by its usual route of administration. There are drugs in the pipeline that target the nicotinic acetylcholine alpha 7 receptor to prevent Alzheimer or alleviate its symptoms, look at a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GTS-21">GTS-21/a> for an example.
          On xenophobia. I accept migrants as long as they either stay in clearly delimited ghettos or that they adapt themselves to the dominant local culture of my place and start to drink alcohol and eat pork. I do not trust people who don't drink unless they do so because they were alcoholics.

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        • (Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @10:09PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @10:09PM (#286955)

          Ah the perks of ignorance. Imagine the alternative for a second and you might see: If Turkey, a NATO member and part of the EU (incredibly), did not fund ISIS, there would not be a refugee crisis in Europe and the relatively tiny number of arabs/muslims in Europe that were already there would continue to blend and become part of the social fabric without conflict. As it is, because of liberals in Europe, Turkey is in the EU and ISIS is flushing the middle east of civilians who are turning up by the millions in Europe. Indeed, xenophobia is adaptive in this situation. As things progress we can expect civil war in parts of Europe soon. Thanks to our liberalist, internationalist traitor leaders.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @02:21AM

            by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 11 2016, @02:21AM (#287910)

            No, Turkey is not part of the EU. I believe they want to be (or at least did want to be) a member, but they haven't been made a member of the EU.

      • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday January 08 2016, @09:03PM

        by isostatic (365) on Friday January 08 2016, @09:03PM (#286910) Journal

        BREAKING NEWS

        Every person killed by a bullet is one that could have been prevented if guns were banned

        BREAKING NEWS

        All [wikipedia.org]
        these [wikipedia.org]
        major [wikipedia.org]
        british [wikipedia.org]
        terror [wikipedia.org]
        attacks [wikipedia.org]
        were [wikipedia.org]
        caused [wikipedia.org]
        by [wikipedia.org]
        Irish [wikipedia.org]
        people [wikipedia.org]

        However I don't recall anyone saying "stop the Irish from crossing the sea" because we understood it was a minority of Ireland that wanted to kill people (and a minority of the US that funded them)

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday January 08 2016, @06:20PM

      by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday January 08 2016, @06:20PM (#286753) Journal

      99.99% of refugees do not commit sexual assaults

      Hang on.

      http://www.rrsonline.org/?page_id=944 [rrsonline.org]

      • One in five women has been the victim of attempted or completed rape in their lifetime. Nearly 1 in 2 women have experienced sexual violence other than rape in their lifetime.
      • 1 in 5 men have experienced a form of sexual violence other than rape in their lifetime.

      That's just rapes in the U.S. I get that you want to defend migrants but let's not use impossible numbers.

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      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:24PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:24PM (#286756)

        I get that you want to defend migrants

        I find it very telling that after such events there are many people who prioritize defending the migrants over protecting women. How many raped women is your immigration policy worth?

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:29PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:29PM (#286760)

          72

        • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday January 08 2016, @06:42PM

          by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Friday January 08 2016, @06:42PM (#286774) Journal

          I find it very telling that you would latch on to that statement like a shark. I didn't even say that I support or oppose migrants, and no, my statement doesn't imply one or the other.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:46PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:46PM (#286779)

            I was referring to Tork, m80.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:49PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:49PM (#286781)

              Whoops, meant Isostatic, who you were replying to. I scrolled too far.

      • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday January 08 2016, @07:38PM

        by isostatic (365) on Friday January 08 2016, @07:38PM (#286840) Journal

        * Given that the vast majority of rape is by someone the victim knows
        * And that migrants in the west (who are lets face it looking for work) are predominantly men

        I'd imagine that the percentage of rapes by migrants is actually lower that the percentage of rapes by settled people.

        However the point is a headline stating

        "100 refugees commit sexual assaults"

        Is the same as

        "999900 refugees do not commit sexual assaults"

        The first sells papers, and causes outrage, and the problem is the outrage is directed at the 999,900 innocent people as well as the 100 that should have their balls chopped off.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:38PM (#286768)

    Very few in number, perhaps, but very large in scale. And do not think that there's not suppression going on. The Rotherham child abuse scandal [wikipedia.org] (over 1400 children) was surpressed for over 14 years.

    • (Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 08 2016, @06:59PM

      by Tork (3914) on Friday January 08 2016, @06:59PM (#286788)
      How much of the Pakistani population in England were involved in this case?
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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:01PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:01PM (#286789)

        A larger percentage than the native British population was.

        • (Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 08 2016, @07:17PM

          by Tork (3914) on Friday January 08 2016, @07:17PM (#286809)
          Not relevant. What's the actual number?
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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:25PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:25PM (#286821)

            Not relevant, because I said so.

            Great argument, you're a real master debater.

            • (Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 08 2016, @07:29PM

              by Tork (3914) on Friday January 08 2016, @07:29PM (#286826)
              Not relevant because closing the borders won't toss the Brits out.

              Great argument, you're a real master debater.

              Still waiting on that number that's stalling the debate. If I'm so wrong you've got nothing to fear by sharing it.

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              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:33PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:33PM (#286832)

                That number? Oh, it's not relevant. You know why? Because I say so, that's why.

                "Why aren't you conforming to my arbitrary argumentative framework that I set up just so you would fail?! Dammit!" -- Tork, 2016

                • (Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 08 2016, @07:52PM

                  by Tork (3914) on Friday January 08 2016, @07:52PM (#286860)
                  Actually we're still within the context of the original point I made. Feel free to take some time to do some research so you can intelligently reply, if you like.
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                  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 09 2016, @01:40AM

                    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 09 2016, @01:40AM (#287068) Homepage Journal

                    Problems with the official statistics. The UK has been covering up immigrant crimes for the past 20 years and more, just as the cops and the media initially tried to hide the violence toward women on Cologne.

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                    • (Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday January 09 2016, @02:11AM

                      by Tork (3914) on Saturday January 09 2016, @02:11AM (#287085)
                      Which brings us back to my original point: Are they hiding it because the number is high or are they hiding it because 10 people running a sex ring means the locals will harass the tens of thousands that they identify of being from that country of origin? I can't speak for England but we're too dumb here in the United States to understand the difference between a thousand and a billion and lots of innocent people have been harassed because of it. There's a big difference between political correctness and people people in danger.
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                      • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 09 2016, @02:50AM

                        by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 09 2016, @02:50AM (#287100) Homepage Journal

                        Neither. They hide it because it would embarrass the people in power to acknowledge that they were wrong. Just as the UK hides the true statistics on violent crime in general, they can't publicize immigrant crime, because it would demonstrate that their policies were failures.

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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:28PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:28PM (#286824)

            "I do not know what proportionality is. Math is hard, let's go shopping." -- Tork, 2016

            • (Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 08 2016, @07:33PM

              by Tork (3914) on Friday January 08 2016, @07:33PM (#286833)
              I knew you weren't serious.
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              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:38PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:38PM (#286839)

                I didn't know you were retarded, but I would like to thank you for informing me so I can disregard you in the future.

      • (Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday January 08 2016, @08:28PM

        by isostatic (365) on Friday January 08 2016, @08:28PM (#286889) Journal

        How much of the Pakistani population in England were involved in this case?

        Not many. The problem is that while the average pakistani in Rotheram is innocent, however the average member of these sex gang is a Pakistani Muslim. It did not help that the papers, rather than calling a spade a spade, called it a "gardening tool". By describing the perpetrators as "Asian" rather than "Pakistani" it gives fuel to the fire that there's a vast coverup, and the problem that it swung away from the racism with the Stephen Lawrence case and went the opposite way.

        However it's not isolated to Rotherham, just look at the wikipedia page


        Rochdale sex trafficking gang
        Derby sex gang
        Oxford sex gang
        Bristol sex gang
        Telford sex gang
        Peterborough sex abuse case
        Banbury sex gang
        Aylesbury sex gang

        It's a massive problem with a certain culture.

        • (Score: 2) by Tork on Friday January 08 2016, @08:36PM

          by Tork (3914) on Friday January 08 2016, @08:36PM (#286895)
          Each of those describes incidents that convicted a handful of individuals that are Pakistani. By handful I mean "less than ten". When I looked up the population of Pakistanis in England it starts at half a million since the early 90's and grows to three-quarters of a million in the early 2000's. With numbers like that it is *very* hard to claim it's a massive problem with a specific culture.
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          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @10:16PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @10:16PM (#286959)

            Those are just the ones who got caught

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @10:21PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @10:21PM (#286961)
              The number of accused isn't much higher. Seriously, read your own links.
          • (Score: 2) by Dr Spin on Friday January 08 2016, @10:23PM

            by Dr Spin (5239) on Friday January 08 2016, @10:23PM (#286962)

            The failure to report it because of "political correctness" is, however, a massive problem.

            As is the bunch of scumbags that claim that celebrating Christmas would offend Muslims.
            Muslims might, perhaps, complain about Easter, but they have no gripe against Christmas.
            Pretending they do is deliberate shit stirring.

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