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Germans shaken by New Year attacks on women in Cologne
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It takes a nation to protect the nation
New year rape fest in Cologne and other German cities
About 90 women have reported being robbed, threatened or sexually molested at New Year celebrations outside Cologne's cathedral by young, mostly drunk, men, police said on Tuesday, in events they have described as 'a new dimension in crime'.
Cologne police chief Wolfgang Albers told a news conference officers described the men as looking as if they were from "the Arab or North African region" and mostly between 18 and 35 years old. "We have one complaint that represents a rape," he added.
Integration commissioner Aydan Ozoguz warned against putting foreigners and refugees, hundreds of thousands of whom have entered Germany largely from Middle Eastern war zones, under "blanket suspicion".
Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed shock over the attacks that police said occurred when about 1,000 men split into gangs as officers cleared a square to stop fireworks being thrown from the top of steps into the crowd below.
While politicians also urged people not to become wary of all refugees, the incident fueled calls from right-wing groups to stop letting in migrants.
Germany took in just over a million last year, far more than any other European country.
Cologne mayor Henriette Reker said it was "unbelievable and intolerable what happened on New Year's Eve" but there was no reason to believe those involved in the attacks were refugees.
Justice Minister Heiko Maas said Germany would not accept such attacks which he described as "a new scale of organized crime".
Around 150 people gathered in front of Cologne's cathedral on Tuesday evening to protest against violence against women. One of them held a sign saying: "Ms Merkel where are you? What do you say? This scares us!"
"TOUGH RESPONSE"
The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD), which has gained in polls in part at Merkel's expense thanks to a campaign against refugees, said she should close the border.
"Mrs Merkel, is Germany 'colorful and cosmopolitan' enough for you after the wave of crimes and sexual attacks?" tweeted AfD chief Frauke Petry.
Merkel told Reker in a phone call the attacks deserved a tough response.
"Everything must be done to investigate those responsible as quickly and completely as possible and punish them, regardless of where they are from," she said, according to her spokesman.
There are almost daily attacks on refugee shelters.
"Events like that in Cologne foster xenophobia," said Roland Schaefer, head of Germany's association of towns and localities.
After a crisis meeting, Cologne mayor Reker said new steps would be taken to avoid a repeat, including increasing police numbers at big events and installing more security cameras.
She stressed that women must feel safe at traditional carnival celebrations next month when the city closes down for five days of drunken street parades and parties.
Reker was stabbed in the neck and seriously hurt in October, just a day before she was elected mayor. Police said that attack appeared to be motivated by her support for refugees.
(Additional reporting by Joseph Nasr and Matthias Sobolewski in Berlin and Andreas Kranz in Cologne; Editing by Ruth Pitchford)
Tags: Cologne, German, New, and, cities, fest, in, other, rape, year
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Permalink Reply by Antony on
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Angela Merkels NY speech ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEIl9GUrZ_Q&feature=youtu.be
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Why are feminists refusing to discuss Cologne sex attacks ; http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/01/why-are-feminists-refusing-to-...
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Ralf Jaeger, interior minister for North Rhine-Westphalia, said police had to "adjust" to the fact that groups of men had attacked women en masse.
Three suspects had been identified, he said, but no arrests had been made.
Scores of women say they were robbed or sexually assaulted by men, reportedly of Arab or North African appearance.
Mr Jaeger also warned that anti-immigrant groups were trying to use the attacks to stir up hatred against refugees.
"What happens on the right-wing platforms and in chatrooms is at least as awful as the acts of those assaulting the women," he said. "This is poisoning the climate of our society."
Cologne sex attacks 'require police rethink'
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35248601So I'm asking all members to please stop it with the raping of German women and stealing their purses - because that's what you are doing, apparently, when you report the rapes that the MSM tried to keep quiet, and when, God forbid, you criticise Muslim deserters, who we all know are held to a different standard to the rest of us.
Your words are intruding into people's minds, in just the same way as those men's fingers stuck into the women's vaginas and anuses. Your uncovering of these crimes, has stolen the peace of mind of kind hearted liberals everywhere, in just the same way as those poor, persecuted young men stole the womens belongings. Theres no difference, can't you see that? -
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Not Cologne, but Helsinki ; http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/europe/98312-160107-unp...
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Ezra Levant on Cologne ; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CScAkhiSmok&feature=youtu.be
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Unprecedented sex harassment in Helsinki at New Year, Finnish polic...
Telegraph, 8 January 2016
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German feminists blame German men ; http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/01/07/feminists-blame-german-b...
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2 teenage girls gang raped ; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/12088341/T...
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Pro muslim apologist's article ; http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/we-should-look-to-the-gender-of...
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Britain should be worried by flood of male migrants ; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3389734/Why-Britain-worried...
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