Is it the slippery slope for Angela Merkel ?
In what has to be one of the biggest yet slowest reported news items of the week\year so far -The mayor of Cologne has summoned police for crisis talks after about 80 women reported s*xual assaults and muggings by men on New Year's Eve,The scale of the attacks on women at the city's central railway station has shocked Germany. About 1,000 drunk and aggressive young men were involved. City police chief Wolfgang Albers called it "a completely new dimension of crime". The men were of Arab or North African appearance, he said. Women were also targeted in Hamburg. Most of the crimes reported to police were robberies.
What is particularly disturbing is that the attacks appear to have been organised. Around 1,000 young men arrived in large groups, seemingly with the specific intention of carrying out attacks on women. A volunteer policewoman was among those sexually molested.
Police in Hamburg are now reporting similar incidents on New Year's Eve in the party area of St Pauli. One politician says this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Copy pasted from a BBC news report in order that I don't get accused of putting a slant on it.
Comments (70)
Refugees -
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Build those walls, It seems newspapers and mass media make the best mortar.
But having said that the evidence does seem outstanding
organised by who and for what end,
Could it be a modern "Beer Hall Putsch" of types
The world is seldom what it seems my friend
I am in a meeting Z and will come back.
You know it starts with a blood moon. and then the Trump-ette's sound
It says so in the online bible
Uneducated guess make great bricks
My question is what would Merkel do now?
Rolf
Cameron was lambasted for saying he would only take refugees from syria camps, everyone was up in arms saying he was not open enough. He helped with money in camps too and that was frowned upon. Even Clergy in England said he was not doing enough.
Well I truly hope people now see he went the right way in this anyway.
Rso I could still holiday in Spain as it looks as if referendom was held now with tensions on imigration automatic in EU countries the Brits would vote out probably 70% but you never know.
We also want to name cheese, icecream etc our own way too, and not let people in prison take vote. I do not think Cameron no matter how hard he tries will make much inrode.
See
Seems some people are more humane than others, does that mean they are more human; and if so. More deserving of Human rights,
or at least first dibs on them
You raise some fine questions Zman and Redex
"There goes the neighbourhood"
He needs it for the bold kids
see a bit of trilateral thinking is all it takes to join the one percenters,
Welcome to the new world order
Such troubling news...hard to fathom why these young men would do such a thing...
It is like they are giving society the middle finger...
I am quite surprised that security checks were not properly done...here in Canada the Syrian refugees had to go through interviews and security checks...people with children were a priority...
I hope they capture the men responsible for the attacks...