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| 1000 Migrants Rioting In Schorndorf, Germany (pop. 39000) - MSM Mostly Silent |
| 2017-07-17 |
| Posted by:Elmerert Hupens2660 |
| #5 This op-ed. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-07-17 17:40 |
| #4 Here is Deutsche Welle's English-language take on events: Rioting breaks out at festival in southern German town Police in the southern German town of Schorndorf have increased their presence after violence at a public festival. At least two cases of sexual harassment were reported. Authorities in the town of Schorndorf in the German state of Baden-Württemberg have called in more police to supervise a festival following riots and at least two cases of women being sexually harrassed over the weekend. Guests and police were attacked with bottles thrown from a crowd of some 1,000 young people during the night to Sunday, police said. They said groups of 30 to 60 rioters then left the castle park where the festival was taking place and continued to make trouble in the center of the town. A police spokesman said on Monday that the violence against officers was "horrifying," adding that the aggression had taken on a new quality. He said the excessive consumption of alcohol had played a large role in the violence. Police said a number of the young people present were of a migrant background. Sexual attacks Two young women, one aged 25 and the other 17, were also sexually harrassed at the festival, according to police. A 20-year-old Iraqi man was being questioned in connection with the first case, while three Afghan asylum seekers aged from 18 to 20 were detained over the second. The mayor of Schorndorf, Matthias Klopfer, expressed his sympathy with the victims of the harrassment, saying such attacks were "not trivial offenses." Police have called on anyone else who was the victim of similar attacks to come forward. The issue of sexual harrassment has become increasingly sensitive in Germany in the wake of mass attacks on women in the western city of Cologne and other cities on New Year's Eve 2015/2016. The festival in Schorndorf, which began on Friday, is due to end on Tuesday. This particularly resonates with the op-ed posted yesterday, where the lady wrote that Afghans would try to blame their misbehaviour on alcohol consumption, rather than both drinking and molesting being due to feeling entitled to take what they willed from those they'd conquered. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-07-17 17:38 |
| #3 It's not a clash of civilizations, it's a clash between civilization and barbarism. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-07-17 10:36 |
| #2 Quaint cultural customs, imported to a culture near you... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-07-17 07:07 |
| #1 "17-year-old has been arrested on Saturday by three asylum seekers and has been greeted at the Po" Ahem... automatic translations still have some work to do :-) It's not true that the media has been mainly silnt about this. The incident bhas been reported in all major papers. Three Afghan "refugees" touched a 17 yo girl's derriere. In an unrelated (?) event, quarrels broke out, bottles were thrown. When police tried to arrest a German, others solidarized with him. Police said several groups of 40-50 people started fights, but the majority of participants were Germans. |
| Posted by: European Conservative 2017-07-17 06:51 |