Cologne Mayor Slammed For Telling German Women It Is Their Responsibility To Keep Rapists At "Arm's Length"
Earlier today, we brought you an eyewitness account of the melee that unfolded in Cologne, Germany on New Year’s Eve.
Allegedly, hundreds of 18-35 year-old males “of Arab and North African origin” robbed and sexually assaulted women gathered in the city center. Assaults were also reported in Hamburg and Stuttgart. Authorities are attempting to discern if there's a connection.
Ivan Jurcevic, a hotel club bouncer who was on the job (literally) in Cologne when the trouble started, had the following to say in a video posted to social media: "These people that we welcomed just three months ago with teddy bears and water bottles ... started shooting at the cathedral dome and started shooting at police. Well seasoned police officers then confessed to me that they never saw something like this in their entire lives. They called it a 'civil war like situation.'"
Here's an account from a woman who claims to have been a victim of an assualt:
"The men surrounded us and started to grab our behinds and touch our crotches. They touched us everywhere. I wanted to take my friend and leave. I turned around, and in that moment, someone grabbed my bag."
That is of course the last thing Angela Merkel wants to hear. The Chancellor is struggling to convince Germans that Berlin’s open-door policy for Mid-East asylum seekers isn’t set to tear the country’s social fabric apart at the seams.
For some, the events that unfolded on New Year’s Eve validate concerns about the risk Germany is running by bringing 1.1 million migrants into a country with a population of just 82 million. "Mrs Merkel, is Germany 'colorful and cosmopolitan' enough for you after the wave of crimes and sexual attacks?,” AfD party leader Frauke Petry tweeted.
"Ms Merkel where are you? What do you say? This scares us!,” read a sign held by one of hundreds of protesters who gathered in the city center in Cologne on Tuesday.
For her part, Cologne mayor Henriette Reker called the attacks “unbelievable and intolerable” but then suggested that the victims should have acted different to avoid getting themselves into trouble. She also seemed to suggest that perhaps those responsible for the attacks were simply unaware of Germany’s cultural norms.
Now, Reker is drawing sharp criticism for her contention that women in Germany should adopt a “code of conduct” as a kind of rapist repellent.
“In her first public appearance since the incident, Reker instructed women on how they could protect themselves,” Huffington Post writes “The proposed code of conduct included telling women to stay in groups, not be separated, always try and keep their distance and always stay an arms length away from strangers.”
“There’s always the possibility of keeping a certain distance of more than an arm’s length – that is to say to make sure yourself you don’t look to be too close to people who are not known to you, and to whom you don’t have a trusting relationship," she said. "Women would also be smart not to go and embrace everyone that you meet and who seems to be nice. Such offers could be misunderstood, and that is something every woman and every girl should protect herself from," Reker continued, digging herself an even deeper hole."
She also advised women to not be in a celebratory mood.
Needless to say, the comments created a veritable firestorm on social media.
Cologne's female mayor: women must "maintain arm's length distance to strangers". Everything about this depresses https://t.co/8qkrawHnmj
— Catherine Mayer (@catherine_mayer) January 5, 2016
Mayor of #cologne already victim blaming. If the German govt had any guts they'd deport the lot tomorrow https://t.co/dun3DESp6F
— Lee Laborczfalvi (@laborcz) January 5, 2016
Unbelievable. Cologne Mayor reacts to migrant mass sexual assault by giving “guidance” to young German women on proper dress & behaviour
— A Libertarian Rebel (@A_Liberty_Rebel) January 5, 2016
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas was note amused: "I don't think much of the how-to-behave tips for women such as #anarm'slength. It is not women who are responsible, but the perpetrators," he wrote, in a tweet.
Later, Reker would say that the media made it appear as though she was confining her prevention suggestions to women when in fact, she also had advice for would-be assailants. To wit: "We need to explain to people from other cultures that the jolly and frisky attitude during our Carnival is not a sign of sexual openness."
You'd be forgiven for suggesting that perhaps some German politicians are going out of their way to avoid applying negative stereotypes to migrants.
In any event, Germany's "jolly and frisky" attitude toward refugees is disappearing quicker than a handbag in Cologne on New Year's Eve and one wonders how long it will ultimately be before the public simply revolts against a government they feel is powerless to protect their property, person, and borders.
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The New Yawk wise guys did load up Deutsche Bank with a ton of fraudulent mortgage bonds and calledcthem "the dumb money" while financially raping them.
If the women were actually armed then they could keep the rapists at arm's length.
They need to visit the Black Market to obtain that which the Government refuses.
Good idea. Chances are the German women might be a bit tougher and less girlie than the German men.
Yeah its all good. Folks are going get a big wake up call concerning their standard of living soon. The same bunch that did so well with Versailles, Wiemar inflation and just about every other economic raping in the Western world since 1913 are going to be under the spotlight. I wonder which country they will be able to flee to this time? My guess is one off planet. Everything will be fine.
Do they make 'bastard' files that girth ?
Big Big problems and coming here too maybe?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cb0_1447249820
http://www.independentsentinel.com/breaking-wh-plans-to-develop-a-country-within-a-country-of-15-million-new-americans/
A self defense class is not enough. These animals back down fast when they're alone and realize they picked a bad mark. Cowards like this are very dangerous in groups. Groups of these animals cannot be allowed in civilized society.
In leftist culture you excuse violence, even apologize for causing it. You take passive measures, appeal to authority and outsource protection to the government. This is the passivity and weakness of the leftist state.
In a free country with strong people the mayor calls up all the reserve police and national guard. Tells free men to travel with their women and arm themselves well. If trouble starts take full defensive action including use of lethal force and report to authorities. This is what free alpha-people do. Think wild American West
The whole reason that these mobs form is because they have not found any reason to fear. When they do this in public they are making a bold statement. Think of a large middle finger to the German people.
How about she address the problem: THE MEN.
Thanks scum-bag apologist!
Oh, yeah. She left out the part where they should just lie back and think of England.
Really? I wonder if she knows the new "Bruce"?
Newsboy
You are right that she is not a bad guy, she is a piece of shit traitor along with the rest of the cabal who is in on the genecide of Europe by the letting in of these rapefugees. My only wish is that she and all the others get their comeuppance fitting of traitors.
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Yes, in other actions she's shown herself to be complicit in the invasion of the migrants-without-visas. In this case though I think she was just giving advice that, if followed by women, would make many of them safer.
Yes, women should use their superior upper-body strength to simply shove a mob of a hundred men backward to acceptable distance. Sound advice, Mom.
Grow up. Reker is deliberately redirecting public accountability from the criminal invaders to the German women.
What's next? "The Train Station was in the wrong place, wrong time." Or was it a "Train Station gone wrong"? Did the Train Station "fall in with the wrong crowd"? Is he "turning his life around"?
I guess you have to live in America, where every day, Bantu Savagery gets telegenically transmuted into Bad Schoolstm, The Streetstm, Gun Violencetm, White Privilegetm, or other nonsense to avoid accountability for their failed Hominid Uplift Project.
Reading comprehension for the win!
She suggested staying far enough away that you don't have to try to shove them back.
fuck off, and take your excuses with you.
Congrats. You just revealed to all of ZeroHedge that you've never been in a public place!
They were far enough away... they were in Germany and the savages were in the Middle East and North Africa. Then their leaders brought the savages within rape distance, when they were not before.
Try getting to arms length at a busy train station.
Have fun.
Define far enough away, idiot. 5 ft ? 10 ? Do the rapists not have legs to move ? If a woman is standing in line to buy a ticket and a man stands in line behind her, should she leave the line ? How about we just say women shouldn't be in a public place because they might get raped.
You are a moron. These animals should have their genitals chopped off. Big head, little head, take one or the other. They deserve no better.
Address tge probkem: The MO-slum men. Quarrantine the rapists group.
is she part of the tribe?
If Reker doesn't echo, she's got at least three cats.
What are you saying? She looks like she rides around on a broom.
His post made me laugh.....that always gets an upvote!!!
She is a good guy for Muslim immigrants. "Reker has stuck up for refugees as other politicians have advocated turning them out of temporary shelters, according to media reports. And she has praised new arrivals as adding value to German society.
"When I speak of refugees, I don't speak of desperate measures and burdens but instead of potential and opportunity," she recently said in a statement." -CNN 10/18/15
What Reker does is essentially blaming the victim. Next time she makes up dress codes otherwise when women are getting raped it's their own fault or what? Who needs advice here is the criminal mob how to behave in a civilized culture, not the women.
you don't get it. western women are entitled to dress like sluts and get drunk without having to deal with horny men. it is the man's fault for getting aroused by the stuff that gets a man aroused. they are under no obligation to protect themselves in any way even if it makes sense.
Men are responsibke for their conduct REGARDLESS. IF YYOU RAPE, YOU ARE THE PROBLEM
in Islam it works the other way around - if a man rapes, it's the victim's fault for tempting him
not exaggerating, not kidding, them's the actual rules of that culture
As I mentioned yesterday, this was explained to me by a Muslim woman; men can't help themselves, so it is not their fault.
What I took from this article is that there is an easy way to solve the problem: European women should cover their hair, wear demure clothes, never appear in public unaccompamied by a man, etc.
So, we're all good?
All I can say is the next general election's gonna be wild.
The Germans are sheep. They've had 3 generations to breed out any aggressive tendencies and it has worked well.
I wonder how fast people loose survival instincts compared to rats. I had pet rats many years ago, they were completely docile, yet when one of them got loose outside, it quickly reverted to wild behavior. It even once jumped 3 feet in th eair to kill a small bird that was landing too close to it. These rats must have been domesticated for many generations, yet could still survive in the wild if they had to.
Can you imagine how China would handle something like this? Identify them thru CCTV....round them up....quick trial...then prompt execution.
We already know how China is handling it... border closed to Muslims.
I've heard that curly-tailed, "oink oink" pigs will go 100% feral boar in as little as three generations...
Less than that. Sometimes an escaped one will grow hair and tusks in just a year.
Their survival instincts have been blocked and turned backwards by the most effective continuous brainwashing campaign -- 70 years now -- that I know of in world history.
Cool story about the rat!
I had a cockapoo (cocker spaniel and poodle). He was the most obedient, docile, sweet natured dog ever. He literally listened to my every word.
One day my dad brought home a deer and field dressed it in our backyard. It was a cold morning and the deers guts steamed when they hit the ground. My adorable, fluffy white, floppy-eared angel went head first into the pile of entrails. In that moment he looked like a feral wolf. His eyes were bright and wild, he growled and ripped at the entrails, and his breathing was deep and heavy. He totally disregarded every command I gave him. Then he took a nap in the sun. And was perfectly sweet again when I woke him later for a nice bath.
It was really awesome to see him access some tiny remnant of ancient wolf DNA.
I had that dog for 15 years. He was one of the good ones!
Don't count on it. The oligarchy, political, and government elite will just follow the Greek precedent when any not-government affiliated political parties were called terrorist or pro-fascist, their leaders were imprisoned, and parties will be banned.
"Bogus Democracies" are over. Totalitarian societies are in. Only arm revolts and revolutions will be the only answer! This is why Obama and his puppeteers are so eager to impose gun control.
I wish Germany had a brave guy like Donald Trump.
her reservation has been confirmed. how do you think some one so stupid became mayor
New German Policy
"If you're being raped, you might as well lie back and enjoy it."
Oh, look, there's a rape machine
I'd go outside if it looks the other way
You wouldn't believe the things they do
Down in the park where the chant is death, death, death
Until' the sun cries mornin'
Down in the park with friends of mine
Gary Numan - "Down In The Park"
Well I was curious and went to the Natinal Organization for Women (NOW) on Facebook, and there is NOTHING about the Germany Rapes, nothing about the uglgy rape culture within the radical portion of Islamic faith as well.
Here is the FB page, GIVE THEM HELL!!!!
https://www.facebook.com/NationalNOW/?fref=nf
Everyman
Feminism has nothing to do with protecting women, as a matter of fact it's quite the opposite. It's seeks, or maybe sought, to destroy the family and the paternal society and make women totally dependent on government and men without a real role in society. The tribe has been working overtime the past century or so through such institutes as communism and the Frankfurt Scool.
I was with you up to the "tribe".
I wonder if Margaret Thatcher was mayor what she would say and do? I expect it would be the exact opposite.
Re The Tribe. Cut the bullshit ^freedomguy. Look up tribesman Aaron Russo and see what he has to say about the banking class and femenism. According to Aaron, only half the population was subject to income tax and the banksters considered that intolerable.