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 - 17:14 | 7023057 gezley
Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:28 | 7021735 Theosebes Goodfellow
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~"yes all Muslims aren't rapist.But Mohammed wasn't exactly a respecter of women. he was more of a weirdo."~

Bullshit, strannick. Any one who is complicit with rape is a rapist. And ALL OF ISLAM is complicit with rape. And murder, and theft, and extortion. The Qur'an, the Sirah and the Sunnah all concur that Mohammad was a plagiarizing, extortionistic, incestuous, lying, thieving, mass-murdering pedophile-rapist-pirate. That's a fuck of a lot more than "wasn't exactly a respecter of women". And Mohammad is today the EPITOME of how Muslim men should behave. So YES, ALL MUSLIMS are rapists or abbettors of rapists. It's fucking high time to stop giving Islam and "peaceful Muslims" a pass on the evil Islam is. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:15 | 7022239 justdues
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You  forgot slave trader, he was big into trading women and  child sex slaves .Hence the recent Isis Islammic court judgements on who has "sex rights " on slaves taken as booty. Unbelievable that this guy is a "spiritual" role model for what ? over a billion humans ? I mean Hannibal Lector looks more like a good Samaritan compared to this nightmare of psychopathy.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:22 | 7022264 Sirius Wonderblast
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He was stoned out of his brain most of the  time, and relied on the support of his rich merchant wife. What a man (not).

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:17 | 7021962 Lord Wakefield
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I could think of a stronger word for someone that married a six year old.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:22 | 7022266 justdues
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Yeah but it,s ok , he waited until she was 9 before he consumated apparently . So ,you know, kind , merciful and "loving" were his guiding characteristics. Oh and patient , I forgot patient, 3 years is a long wait for a horny "prophet" , thank allah for abundant slaves ,eh

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:32 | 7022051 VAD
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not all musloids are rapists, but it sure seems that all rapists in sweden, norway, finland, germany, england, and france are musloids.  

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 15:57 | 7022789 A Nanny Moose
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more like sexual deviant

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:23 | 7021434 BaBaBouy
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Swiss performance artist Milo Moire goes nude in Cologne sex assault protest

artdaily.com/news/84217/Swiss-performance-artist-Milo-Moire-goes-nude-in-Cologne-sex-assault-protest

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:30 | 7021483 Tijuana Donkey Show
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If only we had protesters like that in America. The Swiss beat us in every way.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:02 | 7021620 Blankone
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You have plenty of them in America.  She is no difjferent than the models who pose nude for PETA/Antifur protests or the women "rights" group who must make their statement by getting topless (mostly young ones thankfully) while marching.  Just another opportunist who uses the situation for their personal gain and attention or to support a political agenda for which they will be compenstated (pussy riot).

Personally, although I would not encourage anyone to sexually assault those who act as she/they do, I would not fight to stop it either. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:08 | 7021642 Allen_H
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She is not real (the orange shoes on), I am also suspicious of the one picture above with her holding a placard, also looks dubious. I am a graphic artist, and I tell you she is fake.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:47 | 7022118 HockeyFool
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They look real enough to me. And I hate silicon.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:45 | 7022361 krispkritter
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As cold as it is out there, those nipples can probably cut glass...

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 16:43 | 7022938 Allen_H
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Then you are easy for the vulture.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:07 | 7022210 RAT005
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As much as she is my favorite part of the story I have to agree with you.  Look at the dog's shadow compared to hers. Look how indifferent bystanders are as if she really isn't there. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:34 | 7022061 VAD
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"Personally, although I would not encourage anyone to sexually assault those who act as she/they do, I would not fight to stop it either. "

 

da fuq did you just say?


Sat, 01/09/2016 - 19:37 | 7023583 conscious being
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Blankone = zionist agitator. The woman is making an effective  statement that casts doubt on the Soros mass migration program, hence, it is Blankone's job to talk her down.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:56 | 7022161 El Vaquero
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Only because she would be fun to watch.  She's not going to accomplish anything.  She did some "art" exhibition where she shoved eggs up her snatch and dropped them onto a canvis in public.  She might be fun in the sack, but she's not right in the head. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:22 | 7021452 greenskeeper carl
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Also notice the protestors are all labeled nazis or right wing extremists, xenophobic, etc while the other side is merely labeled "pro immigrant "

And I love how the lefty counter protest was mostly women. Hate to say it but I guess it will literally take them or their families getting assaulted or raped to convince them this is a bad idea.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:33 | 7021504 Tejano
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And "Islamophobic". I guess that would be me...and anyone with a lick of sense.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:52 | 7021586 Handful of Dust
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Notice how many Islams in Germany are protesting their own Muslim peoples violence.

 

Crickets, from the German Muslim crowd.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:12 | 7021665 FreedomGuy
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Crickets everywhere around the world. A news station will get one Muslim to say something generally positive.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:16 | 7021954 Government need...
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C'mon, the religion of piece is ALWAYS silent when their bruthuz commit atrocities.  Would you expect an SS trooper to report the extermination of some Jews?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:13 | 7022233 847328_3527
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Yo!  ... Tijuana, we DO have protesters in America but they look more like these gals:

 

http://media1.fdncms.com/sfweekly/imager/bare-breasted-women-stop-traffi...

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 15:38 | 7022742 madmax1965
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Shit!  I knew I would regret hitting that link! Thanks 847328!

 

END THE FED!

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:31 | 7022304 justdues
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Apparently the SS did, not just report ,but court marshalled and executed not one but 4 camp commandants and executed 2 of them for killing some jews under their detention. Strange behavior for an outfit that was hellbent on "exterminating" every jew in Europe.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 16:04 | 7022815 A Nanny Moose
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Until this changes among the Muslim community, I will consider them to be all the same to me. Deal with your fucking trash goddamit.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:09 | 7021657 FreedomGuy
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Phobic tends to me you are afraid of something and is misused.

What gets me is a thousand Islamic punks run free. The citizens get water canons.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:42 | 7021806 BarkingCat
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Water cannons?? I would think 9mm would be better.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:47 | 7021557 25or6to4
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GC
Even then the lefties wouldn't get it and instead blame "men". As a matter of fact femifacist are calling for a curfew on "men" , all of them including German . Lefties/ SJWs/multicults would rather go to the grave than admitt that they were wrong. Nice to see the outstretched right arm has come back into fashion again in Germany, about f$&king time.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:16 | 7021680 hongdo
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Hold on.  If women protest FOR rapists, does that mean that no really does mean yes?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:40 | 7021790 cheech_wizard
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As the saying goes...

A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:59 | 7022404 NihilistZero
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And a conservative is a libertarian who hasn't been mugged by a cop yet ;-)

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:08 | 7021921 shovelhead
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The first thing that jumped out at me too.

A not very subtle attempt to steer the narrative by the authors of the news articles.

I'd go as far to say it's possible some writers are so indoctrinated that they fail to recognize their bias, but what would be the editors excuse, unless they make no pretense of impartial reporting.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 19:47 | 7023607 conscious being
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Germany openly censors the social media that disagrees with their CIA aproved media. See Merkel and ZuckerFace caught on open mike.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 12:36 | 7022069 VAD
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Even being assaulted is no guarantee that they'd come to their senses.  70 years of brow-beating and brainwashing from the he brew media have taken their toll.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 20:14 | 7023700 Kirk2NCC1701
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Notice the "No Nazis" symbol on his arm. 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:33 | 7021505 The Saint
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Live bullets would work just fine.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:20 | 7021696 Theosebes Goodfellow
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~"You notice they didn't use the water cannons on the mass rapists."~

Ya' know, me personally, I'd of had the ol' padre around and had him bless the water in the water cannon truck. Oh, and I'd have let the Muslims know they were about to get hosed with it. You know, like a mass baptism. That'd sent the fuckers packing.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 11:52 | 7021855 BarkingCat
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Holy water is a Catholic thing. Germans are mostly protestant (lutherans).

 

Besides a much better liquid would be water with pig blood and urine in it.

 

And if English is your native language, learn it!!! It is not  "I'd of had the ol' padre..." but "I'd have had the ol' padre..."

What you wrote makes no sense. Think about it. 

 

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:49 | 7022376 11b40
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Made sense to me, but you ain't from around here, are you?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 18:12 | 7023286 Theosebes Goodfellow
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Did I leave Ida out? As in "I'da have had the ol' padre"? As a side note, even Pretestants have holy water, (for baptisms). Eclesiastically speaking, holy water is holy water, not "catholic", "protestant", "baptist", etc. We Christain are rather ecumenical that way. But you're right Barky kitty, that was sure a mess o' sloppy mudder tongue.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:03 | 7022196 East Indian
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Well said.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:29 | 7022290 XitSam
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Can someone tell us how the police are organized in Germany now?  When I was there, I thought there was only one police force that did national (FBI-like) and city/rural policing.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 13:55 | 7022389 vollderlerby
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Merkel, Hillary, Mayor of Cologne ...  see any common theme there about passing the buck?

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:11 | 7021406 Muh Raf
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And we still haven't seen any film evidence of rioting or fighting, although there are some stupid firework scenes. The mobile film footage I've seen even had elderly white guy with white hair watching the fireworks. About 5 women have come forward claiming they were groped, but not one has come forward to say she was actually raped - yet.

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:23 | 7021423 strannick
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one of these deluded dipshitst touch a woman close to me, I'm not going to look up the legal distinction. kind of puts the Crusades in perspective

Sat, 01/09/2016 - 10:38 | 7021517 DeadFred
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It was on the internet so you know it's true. LOL I agree that some of the stories are hard to believe (though I tend to want to believe them). Suddenly a crazy group of terrorists appear and start lopping off heads on video. Suddenly millions of refugees 'decide' it's time to move north to Sweden and Germany for the winter. Suddenly gangs of these refugees start gang raping random women. It would be easier to accept if the MSM wasn't the one playing up the stories, they don't report news they pass on propaganda. I would also like to see some of those videos that everyone seems to take constanly show one of those gangs. Actually I'd like to see more than one since there were so many gangs. We know we are being fed manure so why are we so eager to swallow this meme?

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