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| Sexual assaults blamed on 'Arab' men in Germany |
| 2016-01-06 |
| [WASHINGTONPOST] New Year's Eve attacks attributed to Arab and North African men threaten to fan the flames of Germany's refugee debate. The wave of violence overnight on Thursday resulted in dozens of reports of sexual assault and robberies around the city's main train station, where a crowd of about 1,000 men had congregated, police said, according to Spiegel online. "We will not tolerate such cowardly and abhorrent attacks," German Justice Minister Heiko Maas said Tuesday. "This is apparently an entirely new dimension of organized crime." More than 90 criminal complaints were filed. About a quarter of them cited sexual harassment or groping, including at least one rape, according to the BBC. Most others alleged theft, Cologne Police Chief Wolfgang Albers said at a news conference on Monday night. Small groups of men would emerge from the larger crowd to surround, harass and sometimes steal from women, Albers said. The crimes were committed by men "who from appearance were largely from the North African or Arab world," he said, according to the Local. Police said they were previously aware of many of the men in the crowd, which did not include any recently arrived refugees. Similar attacks were reported in Hamburg and Stuttgart, according to the BBC. Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker described the attacks as "outrageous" and called an emergency meeting of city officials, according to the Telegraph. "We cannot tolerate a legal vacuum here," said Reker, who was elected in October while hospitalized after an opponent of her pro-refugee policies stabbed her in the neck. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #8 We will not tolerate such cowardly and abhorrent attacks Yes you will and you do you disgusting, cowardly weasel. You won't do a damn thing to stop it, you'll continue to bow and scrape to the feral hoard and tell your women to wear burqas. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2016-01-06 15:20 |
| #7 "We will not tolerate..." but we'll try to cover it up if possible. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2016-01-06 15:02 |
| #6 Not genetic, it's pure cultural and inherited maternal dietary deficiency. Islam inhibits reciprocation and therefore causes poverty to such an extent constitutional-democracy and other civilised behaviour is not possible. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2016-01-06 11:23 |
| #5 I might suspect some sort of pattern, of genetic adaptive deficiency and cultural predisposition. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2016-01-06 11:11 |
| #4 3,200 refugees reaching Germany per day |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2016-01-06 10:33 |
| #3 The crimes were committed by men "who from appearance were largely from the North African or Arab world," Strange, very very strange. If I were not such a progressive thinker, I might suspect some sort of pattern, or genetic predisposition. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2016-01-06 10:27 |
| #2 I-s-l-a-m-i-s-t the word the WaPo, Guardian and BBC would rather be racist than put in the story even though it is true |
| Posted by: anon1 2016-01-06 10:22 |
| #1 well it wasnt the Arab Christians, the Arab atheists or the Arab Jews who did it racist pigs It was Islamists |
| Posted by: anon1 2016-01-06 10:21 |