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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: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Friday January 08 2016, @07:36PM
They didn't just "look Arab", they were Arab. It's not "anonymous sources" claiming that many are recent Syrian refugees, it's an internal police report that was suppressed because it might be "politically awkward".
[Citation Needed] This information is certainly not included in any of the articles linked to this story. And, we have a direct quote from one article that explicitly contradicts this assertion.
(Score: 5, Informative) by bradley13 on Friday January 08 2016, @08:09PM
Were the assault by Arabs? Was this known at the time?
First, the local Cologne newspaper reports that the police deliberately hid their knowledge that most of the people whose identities they checked at the time were new refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan [www.ksta.de]. This was suppressed, because it was deemed "politically awkward". I've given you the original source - Google will give you English articles referring to it.
Identifying individuals out of the mass is difficult, and so far they only have 31 suspects definitely identified [wochenblatt.de] - these in association with non-sexual crimes like simple theft. They include 18 refugees, and the nationalities are: 9 Algerians, 8 Moroccans, 5 Iranians, 4 Syrians, 1 Iraq, 1 Serbian, 1 American and 2 Germans. By the common definition of Arab, that makes 27 of 31, and of those 27 some two-thirds are refugees.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Friday January 08 2016, @10:36PM
In particular, Germany has a large German-born ethnically-Turkish population that could easily "look Arab" without actually being Syrian refugees, so part of what seems to be going on is the connecting of dots that may or may not be connected. It could be entirely true that (1) Thousands of people have come to Germany from the Middle East, and (2) People who look like they might have been from the Middle East committed these crimes, and (3) The people who committed the crimes weren't part of the thousands of people who came to Germany.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 09 2016, @11:32AM
All of which won't matter to those opposed to "letting in foreigners with bad cultures".
So say it's the German born Turkish who did it, then it'll be:
1) We shouldn't have let in the Turkish in the first place
2) Letting in the Syrians in just makes such incidents more likely later on.
In my opinion countries should be choosy on which immigrants can become residents or citizens. Pick the best of the bunch who have a good chance of helping your country. Immigration can't really help the source countries that much: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE [youtube.com]
Doctors Without Borders can help others but their effectiveness in doing so would be reduced if they randomly let in anyone who wanted to join their organization.
If you want to help countries, _go_there_ and help them. But more importantly stop screwing them up like the USA intentionally does. The USA is one of the main parties responsible for the mess in Syria (they supported the Syrian opposition and extremist groups to try to weaken or topple the Syrian Gov), as such if any country should take in the bulk of the refugees it's them and the other countries who helped create the mess in the first place.