Thousands Flood The Streets In Germany As Fury Over Refugee Sex Assaults Reaches Boiling Point

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Update: the water cannons are out as is the tear gas:

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Over the last several days, more information has come to light with regard to the wave of sexual assaults that occurred across Europe on New Year’s Eve.

What some observers initially assumed was an set of isolated attacks in Cologne’s city center now appears to have been a bloc-wide phenomenon as women from Austria, to Switzerland, to Finland come forward to report being accosted by what some police say were gangs of drunken Mid-East asylum seekers.

“In Sweden, police said at least 15 young women reported being groped by groups of men on New Year's Eve in the city of Kalmar,” AP reports, adding that “in Finland, police said they received tipoffs on New Year's Eve that about 1,000 predominantly Iraqi asylum seekers were intending to gather near the main railway station in Helsinki and harass passing women.” 

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“Women with or without accompaniment went through a literally 'gauntlet' by the heavily intoxicated men masses, as one can not describe it," a clumsy translation of a report by the German Federal Police reads. Some have suggested that the string of attacks was initially played down by the media and by German authorities in an effort to avoid triggering an anti-migrant backlash. Indeed, the mayor of Cologne, Henriette Reker, got herself in a bit of hot water for comments which seemed to suggest it is German women’s responsibility to keep would-be attackers at “arm’s length” and to not send the wrong message to “people from other cultures” by acting too “jolly and frisky.”

Meanwhile, Angela Merkel is attempting to salvage the “yes we can” narrative vis-a-vis Berlin’s refugee open-door policy while simultaneously condemning the attacks.

On Friday, Cologne’s police chief Wolfgang Albers was dismissed in connection with his department’s mishandling of the ordeal.

According to a draft document seen by Reuters, Germany may now change its policy with regard to the deportation of refugees. "The paper says refugees and asylum seekers who have been sentenced to prison or probation should be barred from eligibility for asylum,' Reuters writes. "Why should German taxpayers pay to imprison foreign criminals," Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel asked. "The threat of having to spend time behind bars in their home country is far more of a deterrent than a prison sentence in Germany." 

("Respect us! We are not fair game even when naked!" a sign held by Swiss artist Milo Moire reads)

"Women's groups and many politicians have long been arguing that Germany's sexual assault law is archaic, with loopholes that mean groping and surprise attacks are not necessarily prosecutable unless the woman tries to fight off the attack - which police often advise against," Deutsche Welle notes. "There have been very many cases that you and I would probably unequivocally describe as rape or sexual assault that haven't come to a conviction, because the women allegedly didn't defend themselves enough," Elke Ferner of the Social Democratic Party's women's group told the broadcaster.

That law is about to be changed thanks in part to the attention the New Year's attacks have brought to the issue. 

And speaking of drawing attention to the attacks, protesters are once again massing in Cologne where "thousands" of demonstrators took the streets on Saturday. "The protesters included the Islamophobic Pegida movement and the right-wing extremist Pro Cologne party" USA Today says.

More than 1,500 police officers were deployed across the city in anticipation of the rallies. Here's more from DPA

Cologne police are gearing up for a day of highly charged demonstrations, with 1000 far-right protesters expected to hit the streets in response to the mass sex assaults and thefts targeting women on New Year's Eve.

 

Hundred-strong teams of police were deployed on Saturday to locations across the western German city, totalling 1700 officers, a spokesman said.

 

The Islamophobic Pegida movement and the right-wing extremist Pro Cologne party were to stage a rally on the square in front of the main train station, where about 1000 intoxicated men are thought to have robbed, sexually assaulted and, in some cases, raped women during turn-of-the-year celebrations.

 

Of the 32 suspects identified by police in Cologne, 22 are asylum seekers, the German Interior Ministry said.

 

One suspect was carrying a document with Arabic-German translations of sexist phrases and threats, which mass-circulation tabloid Bild published on Saturday.

 

Several pro-migration counter-protests have also been planned for Saturday, underscoring the division in German society over the government's open-door migration policy, which allowed more than one million people to enter the country last year.

And from Reuters:

Migrants who commit crimes should lose their right to asylum, German chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday, toughening her tone as crowds gathered in Cologne angered by mass assaults on women on New Year's Eve.

 

Nearly two dozen asylum seekers were among those suspected of carrying out the attacks, police said this week, heightening tensions over immigration and fuelling criticism of Merkel's refusal to place a limit on the numbers of migrants entering the country.

 

"The right to asylum can be lost if someone is convicted on probation or jailed," Merkel said after a meeting of the leadership of her Christian Democrats (CDU) party.

 

"Serial offenders who repeatedly rob or repeatedly affront women must feel the full force of the law," Merkel told journalists in Mainz, promising a reduction over the longer term in the flow of migrants to Germany.

 

Under German law, asylum seekers are typically only deported if they have been sentenced to at least three years in prison, and providing their lives are not at risk at home.

 

About 1,700 police officers were on the streets of Cologne as protesters, including members of the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement, waited for official permission to march through the city.

 

At a separate left-wing protest, more than 2,000 mostly women gathered close to the train station where many of the attacks, including muggings and sexual assaults, happened.

So once again, we see a deeply divided society, with right-wing demonstrators staging a kind of "we told you so" rally and pro-refugee Germans staging counter protests even as they decry the wave of assaults. 

Meanwhile, the flow of asylum seekers continues unabated. "We had an average influx of 3,200 refugees per day arriving in Germany, and the numbers are not declining in the last days," Ole Schroeder, the deputy German minister, told a briefing in Brussels. "Our problem at the moment in Europe is that we do not have a functioning border control system, especially at the Greece-Turkey border," he added.

Where things from here is an open question but it appears many Germans are at their breaking point. How TIME's person of the year responds may ultimately determine how the world remembers one of the most indelible and revered politicians in European history.

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Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:10 | 7022225 Polymarkos
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Do not look to the men to measure a civilzation's courage; look to their women.

 

See The Sayings of the Spartan Women, and you will learn the truth of this. When the women decide things are to change, then things will change.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:18 | 7021686 22winmag
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Typical. Spray down the protestors, not the assailants.

 

"Why should German taxpayers pay to imprison foreign criminals" = Welcome to the USSA

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:47 | 7021828 Dorothea Binz
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Because spraying down the assailants would be deemed anti-immigrant or even racist. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:21 | 7021704 yogibear
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"This is why the Industrialists are the ones lobbying Congress the most to grant illegal immigrants amnesty.

The elite don't give a crap about you or your raped daughters, as long as the show goes on, as long as they can keep the Ponzi afloat with fresh laborers."

Exactly right! They want their cake and ti eat it too.

What goes around, comes around. Eventually it affects them as well. They think they are immune to it  but it will impact their heirs greater than they realize. Their so self-involved they don't care.

If young people could think they would boycott their products. But they keep buying the Apple and Kraft Food, Target products which outsource their operations.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:48 | 7022372 Graph
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"Industrialists are the ones lobbying Congress... "

Those are Galts, beacons of Capitalism, job creators..., but 80% of ZH-ers call them a Communists ?

Boy I hate when Kevin steals the cookies, Johny is blamed !

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:23 | 7021713 hooligan2009
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with apologies to fawlty towers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfl6Lu3xQW0

"you started it"

"no i didn't"

"yes you did, you invaded iraq, syria, turkey, france, sweden...."

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:33 | 7021752 Egao
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The problem is that US + EU started it by invading so many countries around Europe, North Africa and Mid East. For unlikelly european ZH reader - let me remid you that Russia will welcome you if need be. Just come peacefully :) 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 17:00 | 7023008 hooligan2009
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russia needs a rugby tem first :)

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:27 | 7021726 HowdyDoody
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Nuland and the CIA are laughing themselves silly over all this. 'Fuck the EU' in more ways than one.

For the US taxpayers, here's a video of what your best and brightest CIA members get up to in Russia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OMvfJNjTEw

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:36 | 7021769 Liberty2012
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"How TIME's person of the year responds may ultimately determine how the world remembers one of the most indelible and revered politicians in European history."

You must be kidding.  She will be indelible for sure - but revered - reviled is what it will be.  What has she done up until now?  Browbeat people into submission?

We have plenty of "leaders" these days determined to destroy their own countries.  And what for?  To keep their puppet-master in power?

Love and respect all things. Each individual.  Civilization requires it.

 

 


 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:37 | 7021771 Burticus
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We ain't played "cowboys 'n Muzzies" yet...or "cowboys 'n politicians."

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:38 | 7021772 Dorothea Binz
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How odd Germans would be so incredibly ignorant about middle eastern lifestyle and customs. If German women aren't willing to throw on a simple hijab and only walk in public with a male relative at their side, they're clearly advertising themselves as prostitutes and are open for business.  What's more is Muslims aren't going to alter their behavior and customs. Its up to the Germans to change. Why should Muslims believe otherwise? Germans had to know Muslim expectations before they invited them in.  No crying about it now.  You broke it, you bought it. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:57 | 7021876 Lucky Leprachaun
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"a male relative at their side"??  You mean two paces ahead.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 16:58 | 7022990 hooligan2009
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stop dispaying your western intelligent morals..you should either get raped or wear a hajib....your culture is so enlightened..you must die, conform or be raped..just get in line for either

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 19:36 | 7023579 LC103
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One pays prostitutes. Are the Muslims offering to pay the German women? No? -- then they don't think the German women are prostitutes.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:39 | 7021781 ...in the dista...
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Does Germany own the copyright to the voice in the megaphone?  Very Germanish.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:48 | 7021832 Amy G. Dala
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This is bullshit.  Phobia is irrational fear; islamophobia is irrational fear of islam.

This is not irrational fear.  This is rational rage.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:05 | 7022202 Polymarkos
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BRAVO! Pithily stated! I'm stealing this!

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:47 | 7021826 Stevious
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"Meanwhile, the flow of asylum seekers continues unabated. "We had an average influx of 3,200 refugees per day arriving in Germany, and the numbers are not declining in the last days,"

This is just so insane.

And Obummer wants to bring 100,000 here to America. 

Now where to buy a Burqua so my wife can go shopping in peace.... pffffffffffffft.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:31 | 7021842 Wow72
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Make sure those Riot Police Earn their PAYCHECK!  Till they dont want to defend the Traitor Merkel!  Make sure they know its NOT WORTH THE MONEY!  As you battle them remind them.. your paying them!

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:56 | 7021867 Lucky Leprachaun
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Notice the dusky hue of those in the various 'refugees welcome' demos?

But the MSM will never point that out. In fact the probably scoured the crowd to find whatever German-looking deminstrators they could.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:03 | 7022198 Polymarkos
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Always speak true: by 'dusky' you mean 'brown skinned savage invaders.'

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:59 | 7021880 Zinu
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"Thousands Flood The Streets In Germany As Fury Over Refugee Sex Assaults Reaches Boiling Point"

There about 100 - 200 people protesting... I don't know where are al those thousands hiding... another fake histeria from ZH side.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:07 | 7021914 smacker
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The other thousands fled when they saw a Latvian potato farmer turn up with a sack of ...erm ...potatoes and began throwing them :-)

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:03 | 7021884 MrNosey
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At what point are people going to snap and address this situation head on......

 

http://beforeitsnews.com/global-unrest/2016/01/1000-depraved-migrants-ra...

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:15 | 7021952 Stevious
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Haha... it's getting much worse here.  That scenario is bizarre but  it's coming to a hospital to you soon enough.

Last week I went to the ED with significant cardiac symptoms.

They pulled a slightly abnormal EKG.  The doc tried to admit me but I refused because I have a PPO which unfortunately requires me to use the facilities two hours away.

So I declined and explained why I needed to go to another hospital.

The doc would not let me leave.  Eventually I said: "Call 911 right now, or get out of my way right now and if I'm not having a heart attack and I do expect to be sued for more than you can imagine."

He moved aside, and my wife drove me to an ED two hours away.

In the future, if I need to go to an ED perhaps I'll bring a weapon to make sure that they let me out.

(As I expected it turned out to be an issue but non-cardiac (I'm a medical professional and in this case believed I knew better than the doc, and did)).

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:00 | 7021885 Raul44
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Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused

...

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:57 | 7022166 Doppelganger71
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Who am I to disagree? :)

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:01 | 7021888 Stevious
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"keep them at arm's length"

That's beyond stupid.  Here's how it works:

15-20-30 guys agree to meet someplace.  They find a target.

A few guys start walking on one side, slowly diverting the target off to the side, perhaps to a more isolated place.

Once off to the side, more men press in, now visually isolating the woman from bystanders.

Then surrounded by perhaps 20 men, the arms are grabbed.  The women immobilized migth try to scream, if so a verbal threat will usually stop that, if not the threat of "I've got a knife," stops the women from screaming.

Resistance is futile as being held by two or four large men is enough to immobilize anyone.

Now immobilized, off in a corner, surrounded by a group of men blocking any visual contact, the males can do anything they want at leisure.

Immobilized, off, or pulled down come clothing.  Then the group can do as much or as little as they want.

If the woman is lucky they will just grope, and insert fingers or objects.  If unlucky the woman will be forced to perform oral, or will be raped.

And the stupid Mayor of Cologne says women shoud "keep at arm's length."  What amazing ignorance of cultural differences!

This has been a problem in Egypt and is an ongoing problem in Japan (see sharking and/or Chikan).  Similar and far more vicious tactics have been a problem in India.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:14 | 7021943 Loucleve
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I forget the exact saying, something like the libtard is so _________ that he doesnt know to take his own side in a fight.

conflicted.  stupid.  whatever.  they dont learn until it bites them in the ass.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:01 | 7022187 Polymarkos
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Communists (they are NOT 'liberals'...there's nothing liberating or libertarian about them, but all of them are totalitarian monsters) are so stupid that even AFTER they're bitten in the ass, they don't learn. How many times have you seen some communist feminist yowling about being raped, but apologizing for her rapist? "I know I was raped by a black man, but he only did it cuz he is a victim of the white male patriarchy!"

 

You cannot teach anyone that stupid. Better to put them down, like an animal too sick to recover.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:10 | 7021927 gcjohns1971
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Nowhere near the breaking point.

And like boiling frogs unlikely to spring into action until far too late.

Such numbers for a few more years, and it will take civil war to dislodge them.

By then European women will be Arab mothers, just like their sisters under ISIS today, sex slaves.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:10 | 7021929 Luther van Theses
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The news of a wave of sexual assaults in one city, Cologne, Germany, and in one place has caused international hysteria.

 

On Feb. 27, 1933 the Reichstag, the German Parliament Building, burned down. The Nazis had taken power barely a month earlier. They blamed it on the Communists. The Nazis carried out severe repressions in the aftermath against anyone they considered political opponents, especially Communists.

The way was cleared for the Nazis to do a lot of things that were Really Not Good.

It was later proved to be a provocation carried out by the Nazis themselves.

 

On the reported sexual assaults:

 

One-city focus - Cologne, Germany

Earliest report: on Google News: Reuters, HuffPo, Jan. 5

HuffPo

"Germans Shaken By Mass Attacks On Women In Cologne At New Year"

BERLIN, Jan 5 (Reuters) - 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'.

What took so long?

NyTimes, Jan. 6: "Reports of Attacks on Women in Germany Heighten Tension Over Migrants"

The assaults initially were not highlighted by the police and were largely ignored by the German news media in the days afterward.

This level of sexual harassment is in fact not unusual:

VICE: Immigrants Aren't Responsible for Rape Culture in Germany

An average of ten reported rapes take place each year at Oktoberfest. The estimated number of unreported cases is 200.

 

People: this is another Reichstag Fire.  Don't be played again.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:22 | 7021992 Lorca's Novena
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Surely, you cant be serious?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:12 | 7022228 joego1
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He's afraid of bacon.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 14:24 | 7022504 El Vaquero
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Whereas I regularly infuse myself with bacon.  It is the candy of meats. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:23 | 7021993 Strelnikov
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You strike me as an ahistorical idiot.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:33 | 7022317 RagnarRedux
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The Reichstag Fire Was Set By Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe

"Dutch Communist named Marinus van der Lubbe (with some probable accomplices) started the fire. Van der Lubbe (shown above) was caught on the premises. Though he confessed, he refused to name any co-conspirators."

http://www.tomatobubble.com/id472.html

http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p177_Wainwright.html

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:40 | 7022343 shovelhead
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It's the Lesbians.

They want all the women for themselves.

They can't fool me.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:12 | 7021934 edifice
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Lots of Commies, with GDR flags, there. I don't think they would want a return to those days...

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:23 | 7021969 Jorgen
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"Lots of Commies, with GDR flags, there. I don't think they would want a return to those days..."

I think that in the current circumstances, their showing of the GDR flag may have a different intended (Prussian) meaning rather than simply supporting communism. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:48 | 7022126 Global Hunter
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I have come across a few Germans from the East who lament the loss of the way of life in the East.  The theme is something like "we had jobs, vacations, health care, education, life wasn't bad, now we're in debt and stressed and there is high unemployment."

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:56 | 7022165 Polymarkos
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Proof positive that communists are ALWAYS idiots.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 14:53 | 7022604 Buckaroo Banzai
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It's an inescapable fact of human nature that we tend to look at the past through rose-colored glasses. I'm sure communism didn't seem so great at the time, but no one ever bothers to remember the bad parts, because why would you?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 15:35 | 7022728 Graph
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Talking from personal experience or self appointed rep of East Germans ?

US is flooded with immigrants from former Socialist / Communist Countries who never looked back or complained. But on daily basis they have to read or  listen to amerigos complain and bitch about the system that they had never experienced personaly.

How many illegals from South America's (Capitalist countries) would have given arm or leg that the'd lost on desperate train ride to reach US to have lived in East Germany?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 20:52 | 7023811 RiverRoad
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Who knew life would get immeasurably worse?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:18 | 7021947 cwsuisse
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"Why should German taxpayers pay to imprison foreign criminals," Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel asked.

A truly silly question. The answer, which a politician like Mr. Gabriel should know: According to the rules people go to jail where the crime is committed. In case Mr. Gabriel should not have such basic knowledge he should resort to using some logic: Why would Syria, Iracq, Lybia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen and Eritrea jail people for doings that seem largely irrelevant to the issues plaguing these countries. They need their jails otherwise. But likely Gabriel is aware of that and he is only trying to soothe the nerves of the electorate: "Our society will not pay for the criminals among the refugees, our society will only benefit from the ones that are willing to integrate themselves" he is obviously trying to say. What kind of stupid rubbish is this?

 

The major problem seems to be that the brains of our citizens have been washed by the mass media to a point that you can tell people everything and it is believed. It seems we are seeing a revival of the 1930ies in our country. 

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:20 | 7021980 Strelnikov
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"The protesters included the Islamophobic Pegida movement and the right-wing extremist Pro Cologne party" USA Today says.

 

Standard MSM description of anyone not on the extreme, and acceptable, Left.

Also, good to see the German police can mobilize when presented with a group they consider to be the true enemy.  Muslims raping women?  That's a social problem.


Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:21 | 7021984 bigrooster
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Unlike the disarmed sheep in Germany we in America will kill these refugee trash when they do this here.

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