Thousands Flood The Streets In Germany As Fury Over Refugee Sex Assaults Reaches Boiling Point
Update: the water cannons are out as is the tear gas:
#nopegidanrw aktuell Auseinandersetzungen im #koelnbhf bei der Abreise der aggressiven Pegida-Demonstranten pic.twitter.com/AMofbAPOLH
— Frank Schneider (@chefreporterNRW) January 9, 2016
VIDEO: German police make arrests. #Cologne #PEGIDA pic.twitter.com/FuNyTqaTKe
— Harry Fear (@harryfear) January 9, 2016
#BreakingNews German police use a water cannon on protesters in Cologne #germanyprotests #newdaycnn
https://t.co/WyXtgTrFNb
— New Day (@NewDay) January 9, 2016
Police firing tear gas and water cannon at far-right PEGIDA rally in Cologne, @AFP reporting #germany
— Katy Lee (@kjalee) January 9, 2016
Pictures of police using water canons on Germans protesting against immigrant gangs raping & abusing German women pic.twitter.com/2N8P4ORXOH
— David Jones (@DavidJo52951945) January 9, 2016
Full story:
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.”
“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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White on white crime?
Bullshit. The police acted to separate violent groups in Pegida and those opposing it.
Why is this even news in the U.S.?
Germans thought rape was a big joke during the Occupy Wall Street protests.
Millions should've been in the streets months ago in front of Parilament or better yet Merkels home, shutting the country down. But the people are too busy in the beer halls watching futball. Just like the fat fuck tv watcher in this country!
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Early candidate for Top-10 post of the year?
Not one German has thought to don a Burqa and bust a cap in Merkel's face?
She's the Inverse Hitler. Genocide!!!
Germans need to bring back the good old days of book burning in the town square.
KORAN
That will make the scum rise to the top and expose themselves.
Is it true the rapist yelled 'allens snack bar' as they attacked and raped the german and swedish girls?
Double the humiliation of the german peeples.
Most of these swarthy, dusky, animals were carrying a trully horrific kind of crabs ...
(the crabs they leave behind)
(that's the humiliation)
Hitler wasn't that wrong.
He only targeted the wrong race/religion.
So it begins:
The Euro Feminazis want to use the hysteria arising from the flase flag attack in Cologne to change the definition of rape. They want it be 'any act that makes a woman feel unsafe'. If men want to be safe from false accusation, they better keep away. Maybe they need special carriages on trains and airplanes.
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&ie=UTF...
Congratulations, Tylers and all the ZHers who went along with this BS. You are now honorary Euro Feminazis.
The German Minister of Justice claims the incident was organised and pre-meditated. It certainly was. The question is to what extent. Was it just the gang of mindless thugs who happened to be together coming up with the idea, or were they just crISIS actors paid to act out on behalf of others. Those who want to 'Fuck the EU' for instance?
https://z5h64q92x9.net/proxy_u/ru-en.en/https/russian.rt.com/article/141135
The right-winger "Conservative" (who probably many of them are liberal in disguise) here are full blown mangina, they are useful idiot of the Feminazi gynocratic West Agenda !
They will fill soon how they will get treated by their own little white female snowflakes when new Feminazi and new rapes laws will pass.
The West is feminist dictatorship.
I plan to move out from the West soon as possible as the simple fact of having a penis would make you a potential criminal, time to move in Asia !
Let it burn and eat popcorn !
Lets define terms before we use them. so many here seem to be bound by their very language.
Lets get some things straight, there is no homogenous "white race", but as a heuristic device many use the term.
Nationalized assimilated Germans, "white" or otherwise have every right to defend themselves and their families, protests are meaningless.
Before Lets define "white". Before we talk about "white" lets define "white".
White - a human being with light skin
White - Balt - a specific genetic makeup of a people group currently with a majority comprising populations in Lithuania and some of Poland and Latvia?
Wait so you just want to throw the term out there because we all know what you mean right? Really, I beg to differ.
Seriously where is Whiteland? Anybody know of a nation state of peoples called Whiteland where they can trace their descendants?
Now for all of you less traveled I would argue that you will find very few people of Greek ancestry who will say that they are the same type of people as the Irish.
Even more I'd say that many Irish would have a serious problem if you said they were the same as the British.
And I dare you to tell a Russian scientist that he is of the same makeup, no better or worse than a shiftless
Apalachian meth head.
Tell a light skinned New Yorker from any borough that he is the same as the guys from Duck Dynasty and see if he doesn't wipe the floor with you.
And I dare you to tell a new migrant from Ghana or Nigeria that they are the same "blacks" as someone from the #3rd or 5th Ward in Houston, Texas. Just the same that person from Houston, Texas would have their own concept of their identity as seperate from the migrant.
What these terms on your tax form, black, white, hispanic, pacific islander, native american are about in America is a divide and conquer strategy that is as old as history.
I'm sorry people of light skin makeup less than 7% of the world population. It is not a homogenous group, in fact, it comprises a mixture of ethnic, religious and in fact tribal genetic markers that are quite unique.
Each of us, no matter what our intellect, background, race or religion must come to face the fact we have been conned.
Fighting about meaningless (relative to larger issues) notions of skin color rather than the larger issues of civilization.
Samuel Clemmons (Mark Twain) once remarked (paraphrasing) "its easier to to be fooled than admit you were fooled"
Where whiteland?
(right here you moron)
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Whiteland,+IN/@39.5519159,-86.0993099,...!4m2!3m1!1s0x886b6841be891035:0x38d9d817f787b36d?hl=en
Your welcome - clearly you responding here got you off the streets for a bit ...
(and you sound like a rapist)
The Muzzies in Cologne are just trying to assimilate into Western culture. They have apparently discovered beer, and now they want to emulate the Cincinnati Bungals defensive players they see on TV!
They want anal and oral too ...
(and girl-on-girl action)
(those muzzies)
CHECK THIS OUT
alt VIDEOS
http://brd-schwindel.org/pegida-koeln-9-1-2016/
Isn't it interesting that only white nations MUST accept these rapists? And isn't it interesting how the govts of the white nations all agree but the people don't.
Hmm, it almost seems like a conspiracy, no?
THE RAPES ARE CALLED "el ta?arrush el ginsy"
CHECK THIS SCIENTIFIC REPORT OUT:
http://harassmap.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Reconceptualizing-Sex...
THESE INVASORS/ INVADARS ARE NUTS BIG TIME !!!!!
Ginsy?
Seriously?
Don't blame me, I just grow the stuff.
A lot of Albanians on zerohedge ...
Young German punks .... coming out of their rat cellars .... mixing with .... young Muslim punks .... coming up from Europe's rat cellar .... all they need is a Herr Hillary to lead them .... oh, never mind .... they have Frau Merkel .... Dunkel Doughnut (Dark Doughnut) ?
The ellipses called again. Said KNOCK IT THE FUCK OFF.
Seriously dude, WTF is it with you and abusing ellipses?
The Fascists/Socialists are these rabble rousing punks .... if you leftists want to see your people .... there they are .... kinda makes you proud ?
Angst ridden low information leftists, err liberals, create the conditions for chaos / demise.
Well, there was a bigger picture of the naked chick. :D What she said!
Eye witnesses say MOST of the attackers were middle east or North African looking. My questions is who were the rest? Why would there be others involved if this was purely a race fired attack?...did someone get them fired up to do such a stupid thing?