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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 - 10:58 | 7021613 flight77
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May they receive their awards, now or later in hell.

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:59 | 7021616 NoWayJose
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Which German leader will be the first to be politically incorrect enough to say - "we need to set up labor camps for these refugees"?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:00 | 7021625 debtor of last ...
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I'm just waiting for the moment the native hoards are large enough to join them, spraying Roundup all over the place.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:00 | 7021626 Omega_Man
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Wonder what will happen with fiat ponzi money ceases to be worth anything and refugees have no social assistance, and the police don't come to work as their salaries are nothing and they stay home to protect their families? And in Germany you can't own a gun?

time for baseball bats. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:01 | 7021630 yogibear
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Merkel is an ex-east German.

You got what you deserved.

It will take a real radical conservative from West Germany to change the slow destruction Merkel has created.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:13 | 7021671 Niall Of The Ni...
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Funnily enough, the refugees head to west Germany.

East Germans, who were guinea pigs in the banksters' previous social engineering experiments a lot longer, are much less welcoming of the vanguard of the next one.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:19 | 7021693 flight77
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Merkel is head of the conservative party. They are all New world Order novizes. Fuck the real conservatives. Where are they? they are protecting their wealth and are shutting the fuck up. AFD the new party is run by a lady who was far to long in the CDU. I fear they are a scam too.

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:22 | 7021711 Tortuga
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Merkel is no conservative. That is marxist-progressive obfusecation. Embracing a suicide pact with the islamic cult is by design.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:07 | 7021916 Lucky Leprachaun
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Muslims and africans are just the shock troops used to break down, dilute and ultimately blend out European civilization and the people who make it up. Those pulling the strings are NWO globalists.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:18 | 7021966 Dorothea Binz
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'Conservative' is a relative term. Who is more 'conservative'---Bernie Sanders, or Nancy Pelosi? 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:20 | 7021700 Tortuga
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there is no such thing as a "radical" conservative.

God bless the women for not being as emasculated as their men.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:36 | 7022323 WorkingClassMan
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NPD is also an east German phenomenon.

 

Taken as a whole, I would bet east Germans are less silly about all this than the west Germans.  You find more support for the NPD in east Germany, for example, than in west.

 

Diversity is death.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:18 | 7021638 BarkingCat
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Wake me when Merkel is hanging by her feet in a public square,  machine gun nests are placed on the border and the invaders are hunted down within the borders in order  to be removed from the nation.

 

Until that time I do not want to hear any jokes about the Slavs, Romanians or the Spanish.  Germany once again proves that it is a nation of morons. Enjoy your fucking suicide.

Are you pissed off by what I wrote?? Prove me wrong.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:25 | 7022011 Stevious
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Perhaps Germany is a nation of morons but let me remind you...

Obama is bringing 100,000 "refugees" to a town near you in America in very short order.

So what does that make America into?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:36 | 7022068 researchfix
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Sorry, only one upvote possible.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:06 | 7021645 Jorgen
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How telling:

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:37 | 7022075 researchfix
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We really cannot let this PEGIDA go round and claim Germany for the Germans. How disgusting.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:07 | 7021651 Your guess is a...
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Here, for people new to Europe's culture and German twat Mr Merkel, who both seemingly think these women were 'asking for it', are my Ten rape prevention tips:

1. Don’t put drugs in women’s drinks.

2. When you see a woman walking by herself, leave her alone.

3. If you see a woman out enjoying herself on NYE, remember not to rape her.

4. If you are in a crowd with a woman, don’t rape her.

5. When you encounter a woman who is asleep, the safest course of action is to not rape her.

6. Never creep into a woman’s home through an unlocked door or window, or spring out at her from between parked cars, or rape her.

7. Remember, people go to a bar to have a drink. Do not attempt to molest someone who is alone in a bar.

8. Use the Buddy System! If it is inconvenient for you to stop yourself from raping women, ask a trusted friend to accompany you at all times.

9. Carry a rape whistle. If you find that you are about to rape someone, blow the whistle until someone comes to stop you.

10. Don’t forget: Honesty is the best policy. When asking a woman out on a date, don’t pretend that you are interested in her as a person; tell her straight up that you expect to be raping her later. If you don’t communicate your intentions, the woman may take it as a sign that you do not plan to rape her.

Can someone translate this into a few other languages? I think they might come in handy. Arabic and German, for starters.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:22 | 7021706 GoldSilverBitcoinBug
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Far MORE better:

Go MGTOW and Galt and don't give a fuck about women all together, especially in the Feminazi mangina West those migrant need to be taught the power of MGTOW !

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:35 | 7021764 Pliskin
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Does that apply to New Zealand and Belgium aswell, who have the highest percentage of rapes (Mainly by WHITE CHRISTIAN GUYS) on Earth? 

Or are you just giving a big shout out to those evil, dirty Muslims who rape everyone in sight?

Errr, except for the 20 or so Muslim guys I know who absolutely condone this kind of behaviour.

Oh wait, NO, this is ZH so they must ALL be like that, right?

Fuck off, simpleton.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:04 | 7021894 Lucky Leprachaun
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Where did you get your 'facts'?  Muslim and African invaders commit rapes at many orders of magnitude to Whites. In Norway over a five year period every single rape was committed by a Muslim and/or African.

Change your avatar to shitskin.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:20 | 7021972 Pliskin
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Feel threatened much?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:10 | 7022221 shovelhead
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Because bullshit spewing SJW's are so frightening?

 

"OOhh! I could just toss my double cream latte right in your Cis-gendered faaaace."

Hahaha.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:14 | 7021936 Dorothea Binz
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There are virtually no Christian guys in either New Zealand or Belgium. Both countries are largely agnostic or even atheist.  What's more is the highest percent of rapes is in South Africa. If we're looking for the rape hotbed in Europe, its Sweden, and no, the perpetrators are virtually all Muslim men that have emigrated to Sweden. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:27 | 7022027 Lorca's Novena
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There are a LOT of IDIOTS out there who think just because someone is 'white' they are a Christian. Funny, because this is profiling, and thats what these idiots always complain about...

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:22 | 7021991 Stevious
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_gang_rapes

Oz and NZ has its share of similar problems too.

Take a gander at the link.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:17 | 7022246 Polymarkos
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You're an idiot communist troll. FUCK OFF, comrade. Go drink Drano.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:09 | 7021919 Dorothea Binz
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Rape prevention ought to be addressed to potential victim. Your list should be prison prevention tips.

 

1) Assume someone has put a drug in the drink you left on the table.

2) When walking in public and a middle eastern-looking man is approaching you, put your hand into your purse to grasp your weapon of choice whether it be a gun, stun gun, knife or pepper spray.

3)Out late at night, make certain you are in the company of some male friends you can trust.

4)No longer assume you are safe unarmed in public, and make certain to become scarce when ever encountering large groups of middle eastern men.

5) Unless you're a 'party girl' and like the gang bang, avoid middle eastern men at every turn. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 14:44 | 7022575 Your guess is a...
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"Rape prevention ought to be addressed to potential victim."

 

They all are, basically women should dress conservatively, not have too much to drink or too much fun, beware of all men, blah blah blah. Nothing is said about how men should control their own actions.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 20:56 | 7023793 RiverRoad
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 6)  And be careful re whom you step into an elevator with.  It's always blame the victim, isn't it?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:09 | 7021656 johnnycanuck
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Penguin 1 to Mission Command.

I think I've located the problem Mission Command.  I see  arms and terrorists flowing into Syria and Iraq and I see hundreds of thousands of people trying to get out.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:16 | 7021679 BetaGap
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Finally german media have something new to talk about!

What a lucky coincidence.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:17 | 7021682 Tortuga
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Finally.

Women engaging in the logical "war on women" with women. Could it be the "weaker sex" will show the emasculated fathers, brothers, and husbands the way a war with womrn should be fought.

Git some Women. Praise their courage and pass the ammunition.

 

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.

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