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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: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:33PM
I will tell you the truth from my point of view. I will feel better when these refugees are gone.
I've been almost mugged twice in the last 6 months, I say almost because I flash them a large knife and they back away, (technically against the law here, but I claim I use it at work).
They don't respect the laws, or other people's property, there's next to no control over who is allowed in, and many aren't just coming to be safe.
They travel across multiple safe countries to reach Germany because it's a rich country, and as a refugee you are paid to sit on your ass for 3-4 years while your paperwork is processed.
Fireworks are allowed 1 day of the year, actually 1 night, and that's New Years Eve.
The refugees in my area have been setting them off all week, pointing them into apartment balconies,(there have been fires started), and on top of other's cars. (A big Taboo to Germans)
I don't see an end to this though. My wife and I wanted to raise our kids here, but we're currently looking to relocate away from this mess.
My opinion is I feel bad for these people, but I don't want Germany turning into some 2nd world shit hole.
Here's an english version of an issue that came about last summer.
http://www.thelocal.de/20150626/refugee-school-calls-for-uniform-modesty [thelocal.de]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @06:52PM
setting them off [...] on top of other's cars. (A big Taboo to Germans)
You say that as if it's normal for the French or Americans or whoever to light a fire on another person's car.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:14PM
Well, I was trying to emphasize the reason why the cars are being vandalized.
It's a known fact that Germans love their cars.
(Score: 2) by ledow on Friday January 08 2016, @07:40PM
Weirdly, the only place I've ever seen such number and size of fireworks thrown around like toys was one year when I was in Germany for New Year.
Literally, people (not just kids, but adults) pointing them at each other, throwing them around streets.
And, yes, putting them in the snow on top of my car and launching them from there. Even the German guy who was hosting us, until I kicked his arse for it.
Germany's fireworks laws are incredibly lax compared to, say, the UK anyway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @01:46AM
I was in Bonn, Germany for the 1994/1995 New Year, and I can corroborate that they were a bit wild with the fireworks. I can recall being on a bridge--Kennedybruecke, I think--for the roll over to the new year; a bunch of us American ex-pats were walking along the bridge and the fireworks were just crazy. It seemed that people on one side of the bridge were firing rockets at people on the other side of the bridge for fun and sport. Every few seconds a rocket would come whizzing just overhead from the other side of the bridge. It truly felt a bit like being in the middle of a pitched battle; you never knew when (or, from what direction) you might get hit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:46PM
You say that as if it's normal for the French or Americans or whoever to light a fire on another person's car.
Only if you like getting your ass beat...
(Score: 2) by jdavidb on Friday January 08 2016, @07:46PM
Sounds to me like the problem is you have two enemies: immigrants who don't respect the law, and your government which also doesn't respect the law. They make it illegal for you to have a knife and defend yourself, they steal money in order to pay these people for 3-4 years as you say, they fail to prosecute those who commit crimes and prevent you from having another recourse for justice.
If all this stuff went away the immigrants that arrived would be much more law abiding.
We have very similar problems here, but it doesn't make me oppose immigration in general; it makes me oppose the law "makers" (law breakers).
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @06:33AM
Having a [combat, hunting] knife is perfectly legal; though drawing it and pointing it at random people is pretty frowned upon, as it is in general in civilized nations.
Frankly, the original poster sounds like a nutcase, with his carrying around a knife and all -- don't know whether it will help, but some advice: don't draw a knife in an already tense situation unless you're prepared to use it, and use it immediately; if you don't know much or anything about knife combat, use legally permitted pepperspray instead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2016, @01:57PM
OP here, when I was in the US I grew up in a little city called Baltimore, so I know whats what when 3-4 people stop what their doing, spread out and approach me.
Here's a hint if that ever happens to you, they're not likely going to ask you what time it is.
I carry a weapon to show people I'm willing to use it, and I only draw it when that criteria is met.
I am thankful I've never been forced to do anything more than that.
I am trained in hand to hand combat. Part of that training is being able to judge a situation and react accordingly.
Sometimes it only requires a display of willing to put up a fight.
The refugees often travel in groups, they are housed this way. They also have too much free time on their hands.
I can't find the article, and it's only in German, but there was a man robbed and beaten at the train platform by 3 of them last summer.
This was roughly 4 blocks from where I lived at the time and in the middle of the day.
The weapon I carry is a folding blade, but it is illegal here because I modified it to open with one hand.
(Score: 1) by cpghost on Saturday January 09 2016, @12:32AM
C'mon, are you really in Germany? Fireworks are being sold up to 5 days before New Year's Eve, usually starting December 27th, and there have always been youngsters and pranksters setting off some isolated firecrackers (not the big fireworks though) here and there as early as that, and as late as January 5th or so. It was always so, and that was already some 20-30 years ago. I can't imagine that's different in Niedersachsen... ;)
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 10 2016, @02:16PM
By Fireworks are allowed, I did not mean purchasing, I meant the lighting or setting off of them.
Of course they are being sold before then...
It's not just youngsters this year, and it's not just the small stuff either.
If you think it's permitted any other time other than Silvester, then by all means go up to your Polizeistation and set some off for them today.
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