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Conspiracy of Silence - or Sensationalist Reporting?

Accepted submission by frojack at 2016-01-05 06:22:47
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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. [breitbart.com]

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 [nytimes.com] about events on New Years Eve. That same event was reported by a couple of the British tabloids.

Many reports are in German, Here [express.de] and Here [express.de]. (Google Translate does well with these pages). Others are in English such as this one [gatestoneinstitute.org] and this one [rt.com].

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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