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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: 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!