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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 DeathMonkey on Friday January 08 2016, @07:07PM
They're immigrants (because native Germans are not black)
There are plenty of black German citizens who were born in Germany and are clearly not immigrants. This is poor logic even for someone who literally judges people based on the color of their skin.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:19PM
someone who literally judges people based on the color of their skin.
Judges? That's a bold statement: how about something to back it up? Distinguishment, yes, but there was no value judgement.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday January 08 2016, @07:32PM
You literally just said black people can't be "Real Germans."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:36PM
Did I now? I said 'native' Germans; not 'real' Germans. Not very 'literally', now is it?
I have been informed above that I should probably have used the word 'ethnic' which is more what I was going for. Not that you need to believe me, mind you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @07:42PM
I will just point out that being born in Germany does not automatically confer German citizenship; Germany does not have the same citizenship rules that we have in America. ("If the first foot falls on US soil...") I can't recall exactly what the requirements are, but if memory serves, among other requirements you had to have been born there and your grandparents had to have lived for a time in Germany (and your parents, of course) and you have to have a "German" name. I could be wrong about these so if someone knows better, please chime in. I lived in Germany for three years as a visiting scholar. I still find it incredible that I could more easily obtain German citizenship (three grandparents from Germany) than someone who was born and had lived their entire lives there.
Back over to your previously scheduled rant.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Friday January 08 2016, @09:22PM
You can apply for German citizenship after 8 years of living here amongst other possibilities (such as being an ethnic German from Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, etc.; being of Jewish descent, where the ancestors were in a concentration camp; getting adopted; being born with one parent being German; etc.).
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 08 2016, @09:48PM
Germany does not have the same citizenship rules that we have in America.
We? What fricking "we" do you refer to here, you damn crypto-Nazi!! Yeah, American. Sure you are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @01:09AM
Crypto-Nazi?!? I'm referring to the current law of the land here in the US of A, ya blithering fuckwit! Currently, if someone is born here in this country they are eligible for US citizenship, regardless of the status of the parents. If you have a problem with that, then go find another fascist utopia to call your new home! All ist klar, no?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 09 2016, @12:39AM
Citation? What percentage of German citizens are black, or brown, or any race other than Caucasian?
Do you know, or are you just assuming something that you hope to be true?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @04:27AM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Germany#Migrant_background_and_foreign_nationality [wikipedia.org]