Cologne assault: Cultural difference is no excuse for rape

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[h=1]Cologne assault: Cultural difference is no excuse for rape[/h][h=2]How long before the women of Cologne are advised to stay indoors, or even cover their heads?[/h]

Flowers and a letter reading "One doesn't beat women - not even with flowers" are laid down in front of Cologne's landmark, the Cologne Cathedral Photo: AFP

 

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In the early hours of 26 October 2014, a group of Libyan cadets, who were stationed at RAF Bassingbourn, ran amok in the centre of Cambridge. Fuelled by alcohol, the cadets roamed the picturesque streets looking for victims. Four women were sexually assaulted. The Libyans exposed themselves, grabbed the women, and put their hands up their skirts. A young guy, who was inebriated after a wedding party, was seized by two of the cadets, Moktar Ali Saad Mahmoud and Ibrahim Abugtila, and raped. Describing the “Arab guys” who attacked him, the victim said, “They were horrendous, they weren’t human. I was trying my hardest and they were like overpowering me. It was horrible. Don’t say anything to my mum.”




Moahmoud and Abugtila were jailed for 12 years apiece; the men who groped the women received shorter terms and will, if the European Convention on Human Rights is willing (don’t hold your breath) be deported at the end of their terms.


All of this was deeply disturbing for the residents of a tranquil university town. I was truly astounded, however, when a Libyan spokesman appeared on our local TV news. The uniformed male said he was sorry, but the Libyans didn’t realise that you weren’t allowed to do such things in England. It was an unfortunate case of cultural misunderstanding.

 

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There will be hundred of thousands of people today in the famously civilised city of Cologne, who will be in a state of shock about a similar “cultural misunderstanding”. The facts as we know them are profoundly troubling. On New Year’s Eve, in the precincts of the beautiful, twin-spired cathedral, up to 1,000 men of Arab or North African appearance sexually assaulted and robbed women who were enjoying the festivities. Around 100 complaints have been made to police so far, including two cases of rape. Eighteen-year-old Michelle said she and her friends were surrounded by 30 men, who molested them and then stole their belongings. Michelle said the men looked angry.


And there is the crux of the problem. If you are doctrinally commanded to cover up your women then the sight of a woman like the lovely, blonde Michelle, who is both uncovered and happily self-confident, provokes temptation, and this makes you angry. That anger is not directed where it should be – at yourself or at a belief system which forbids a woman to move and dress as she pleases – but at the temptress. (Just as it was in early Christianity.) In order for male pride to be salvaged, the temptress can be humiliated and terrorised, thus restoring power and dominance to where it properly belongs – the man.



This puts a liberal western society, which values women’s rights, and admits men from countries that don’t, in a bit of a bind, to put it mildly. It’s difficult to raise the issue without being howled down by cries of “Islamophobia”. Sensitivities were already running high in Germany following Angela Merkel’s open invitation to refugees, which saw more than a million people arrive over the past twelve months. Shamefully, it took several days for the German news media to mention the Cologne assaults. As for the police, they issued a comically self-satisfied report saying that a jolly, peaceful time had been had by all. Apart from the girls who had fingers stuck in their most intimate parts, presumably.



It soon became impossible to ignore the gravity of what had happened. Even then, the authorities’ default position was denial. On Tuesday, Henriette Reker, the Mayor of Cologne, made a statement which I sincerely hope will haunt her till her dying day. Asked how women were supposed to cope with this menace, the mayor proposed a new “code of conduct” for young women and girls “so that such things do not happen to them”. In particular, she suggested that women maintain an arm’s length from strangers. This caused a storm of sarcasm on Twitter where the German for arm’s length - #einearmlange – was soon trending. The idea that a woman ambushed by a Moroccan gang should inform them, politely and Germanically, that she was staying at arm’s length to avoid sexual harassment would have been a joke, had the threat not been so real and frightening. Meanwhile, reports of similar attacks were coming in from Hamburg, Dusseldorf and Stuttgart.

 

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Politicians and journalists had previously been reluctant to address stories about rape and child abuse in German refugee camps, where unaccompanied women are apparently seen as “fair game”. Reporting the mistreatment of women is seen as playing into the hands of a Right-wing agenda and stoking ethnic tensions. It’s hardly surprising that the government’s first reaction was to pretend it simply wasn’t true. Remember what happened last time in Germany when there was demonization of “the other”?


In Germany, I regret to say, they are still pretending that there is a moral equivalence between racist attitudes and actual bodily harm to women. (Fear of racism trumps feminism every single time.) Ralf Jaeger, interior minister for North Rhine-Westphalia, epitomised that cultural cringe when he warned that anti-immigrant groups were using the attacks to stir up hatred against refugees. "What happens on the right-wing platforms and in chat rooms is at least as awful as the acts of those assaulting the women," he said.



Nein, nein, nein, mein Herr. Attitudes are not the same as deeds. Women in Europe have not fought for equal rights all these long years only to be told to start modifying their behaviour to avoid being molested. How long before the frauleins of Cologne are advised to stay indoors, or even cover their heads, out of respect to new arrivals? Sharia law shall not be imposed on us by stealth or cowardly accommodation with repellent thugs. And if anyone needs a “code of conduct” it is not German women, but men from conservative societies who must learn sharpish what our values entail, or return from whence they came. I hope that I am wrong, but I fear that the grotesque mass attack on women in Cologne was not an isolated incident, but the first of many battles in a clash of civilisations.
We saw the same pattern of denial in the UK when there was widespread sexual trafficking of young girls in towns such as Rotherham and Rochdale by gangs of mainly Pakistani origin. Attempts by nervous police and social workers to excuse the misogynist attitudes of the perpetrators - “It’s their culture, isn’t it?” - led to hundreds of young girls being raped, ignored and even blamed for their own suffering.

 

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"Sharia law shall not be imposed on us by stealth or cowardly accommodation with repellent thugs"

 

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[h=1]Unprecedented sex harassment in Helsinki at New Year, Finnish police report[/h][h=2]Finnish police 'tipped off' about plans by groups of asylum seekers to sexually harass women[/h]

Fireworks light up the night sky marking New Year celebrations in the Senate Square in Helsinki Photo: EPA


Finnish police reported on Thursday an unusually high level of sexual harassment in Helsinki on New Year's Eve and said they had been tipped off about plans by groups of asylum seekers to sexually harass women.

"There hasn't been this kind of harassment on previous New Year's Eves or other occasions for that matter... This is a completely new phenomenon in Helsinki," the Finnish capital's deputy police chief Ilkka Koskimaki told AFP.




Security guards hired to patrol the city on New Year's Eve told police there had been "widespread sexual harassment" at a central square where around 20,000 people had gathered for celebrations.





Three sexual assaults allegedly took place at Helsinki's central railway station on New Year's Eve, where around 1,000 mostly Iraqi asylum seekers had converged.

"Police have... received information about three cases of sexual assault, of which two have been filed as complaints," Helsinki police said in a statement.




"The suspects were asylum seekers. The three were caught and taken into custody on the spot," Ilkka Koskimaki told reporters.



Police said they had increased their preparedness "to an exceptional level" in Helsinki for New Year's Eve after being tipped off possible problems.
"Ahead of New Year's Eve, the police caught wind of information that asylum seekers in the capital region possibly had similar plans to what the men gathered in Cologne's railway station have been reported to have had," police said in a statement.



Dozens of apparently coordinated sexual assaults against women took place on New Year's Eve in the western German city of Cologne.

Police officers survey the area in front of the main train station and the Cathedral in Cologne, Germany Photo: AFP



Cologne police said they had received 120 criminal complaints by Thursday and quoted witnesses as saying that groups of 20-30 young men "who appeared to be of Arab origin" had surrounded victims, assaulted them and in several cases robbed them.


Mr Koskimaki said police did not see a link between the Cologne and Helsinki incidents.
Shortly before New Year's Eve, Finnish police also arrested six Iraqis at an asylum residency centre in Kirkkonummi, west of Helsinki, suspected of "publicly inciting criminal behaviour". They were released on January 2.


According to Mr Koskimaki, the arrests were linked to the information police received in the run-up to New Year's Eve.
In November, Finnish authorities said around 10 asylum seekers were suspected of rapes, among the more than 1,000 rapes reported to police in 2015.


In 2015 the Nordic nation of 5.4 million inhabitants received over 32,000 mostly Iraqi asylum seekers, the fourth highest amount in Europe per capita and nearly 10 times more than Finland received in 2014.

 

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[h=3]Two teenage girls gang-raped by four 'Syrian nationals' in southern Germany[/h]
Reports flood in of sexual assaults against women across Germany as leaked police report states Cologne suspects 'said they were Syrian refugees invited by Mrs Merkel'

• Suspects in Cologne sex attacks 'claimed to be Syrian refugees'
• 'They were groping and trying to pull us away', says teenage victim
• Germany's women are angry, afraid and tired of excuses

[h=1]Two teenage girls gang-raped by four 'Syrian nationals' in southern Germany[/h][h=2]Reports flood in of sexual assaults against women across Germany as leaked police report states Cologne suspects 'claimed to be Syrian refugees'[/h]

26-year-old student Antonia Rabente a Cologne resident who spoke about the attacks Photo: AP











Three Syrians have been arrested in southern Germany for the alleged gang rape of two teenage girls on New Year’s Eve, as reports flood in of sexual assaults against women across the country.

A 21-year-old man and two 14-year-old boys are being held in Weil am Rhein, a small town near the Swiss and German borders, for the alleged rape of two girls aged 14 and 15.

Prosecutors allege that the two girls were held for several hours and gang-raped after attending a New Year celebration at the home of the 21-year-old man in the nearby village of Friedlingen.

Police officers survey the area in front of the main train station and the Cathedral in Cologne Photo: AFP

Although the suspects have been in custody for several days, news of the arrests only emerged on Thursday. Prosecutors said they were kept secret to protect the victims' identities

Police are searching for a fourth suspect believed to be the man’s 15-year-old brother. None of those involved have been named under German privacy laws.
The suspects are not asylum-seekers. The 21-year-old man and his brother are long-term German residents, while the two 14-year-olds live in Switzerland and the Netherlands.
Prosecutors say they do not believe the incident is connected to the outbreak of sexual assaults against women in Cologne and other German cities over the New Year.
In addition to the more than 120 criminal complaints filed in Cologne, there have been reports of attacks on women across the country.
More than 50 criminal complaints have been filed by women in the northern city of Hamburg, 39 of them for sexual assault.
Witnesses described gangs of men who “hunted” women outside the night clubs of the city’s famous Reeperbahn neighbourhood.
“I was alone and suddenly I realised men were handling me,” one unnamed victim in the city told Spiegel magazine.
“I pushed away the hands and tried to scream. But when one hand went the next had already come. I felt helpless.”
Eleven women filed criminal complaints in Düsseldorf. Police described the incidents as similar to those in nearby Cologne. A group of residents has formed a vigilante group to protect women in the city from further attacks according to the local Rheinische Post newspaper.





In Frankfurt police are investigating seven criminal complaints of sexual assault, including the case of three women who were surrounded by a group of 10 men and “massively” groped.
In the southern city of Stuttgart two 18-year-old women were surrounded and groped by a group of around 15 men. They later discovered their mobile phones had been stolen. Police described the suspects as of “southern or Arab appearance”.
In the western city of Bielefeld, witnesses described women being sexually harassed on the streets and in a popular nightclub. Police identified a group of around 150 men of “North African appearance” as the culprits.
It emerged earlier on Thursday that some of those involved in the Cologne assaults claimed to be Syrian refugees, according to a leaked police report.
The outbreak of violence was also far more serious than previously thought, and at one point senior police officers feared “there could have been fatalities”.
Two publications have released what they claim is an internal report by a senior officer who was at the scene.
If confirmed, the report could have far-reaching consequences for Angela Merkel’s government as it tries to deal with the aftermath of the assaults.
Ministers have said there is no evidence asylum seekers were involved in the violence.

Flowers and a letter reading "One doesn't beat women - not even with flowers" are laid down in front of Cologne's landmark, the Cologne Cathedral Photo: AFP
But the leaked police report, published in Bild newspaper and Spiegel, a news magazine, claims that one of those involved told officers: “I am Syrian. You have to treat me kindly. Mrs Merkel invited me.”
Another tore up his residence permit before the eyes of police, and told them: “You can’t do anything to me, I can get a new one tomorrow.”
A local newspaper reported that fifteen asylum-seekers from Syria and Afghanistan were briefly held by police on New Year's Eve in connection with the sex attacks but were released.
The Express newspaper quoted an unnamed police officer who said his squad had detained several people who had "only been in Germany for a few weeks".
"Of these people, 14 were from Syria and one was from Afghanistan. That's the truth. Although it hurts," he said.
The newspaper quoted a second police officer as confirming the 15 who were held had "residence permits for the asylum procedure". Officers took down their names, and they are in the police records, he said.




If confirmed, the report will add new weight to claims of a police cover-up. The Cologne authorities have claimed they have no evidence whether asylum-seekers were involved.
It is not clear why the suspects were released but police officers have said they were overwhelmed on the night.
Police say they have identified 16 suspects from video recordings of the incidents. It is not known if the group includes any who were detained on New Year's Eve.

Bild newspaper's front page: SEX-MOB The Secret Police Report!
Mrs Merkel’s critics have been quick to blame the outbreak of sexual assaults and robberies in Cologne and other cities, including Hamburg, Frankfurt and Stuttgart, on the chancellor's unpopular “open-door” refugee policy. Germany registered nearly 1.1 million asylum-seekers last year.
On Thursday, Germany's justice minister warned that asylum-seekers could be deported if they are found to have taken part in the Cologne sexual assaults.
Heiko Maas said in an interview with the Funke newspaper group that "deportations would certainly be conceivable."




He said the law allows for people to be deported during asylum proceedings if they're sentenced to a year or more in prison. "The courts will have to decide on the level of sentences, but that penalty is in principle absolutely possible for sexual offenses," he said.
Bild does not name the author of the police report, but identifies him as the commander of some 100 officers sent as reinforcements to the area outside Cologne’s main station on New Year’s Eve.

“When we arrived, our vehicles were pelted with firecrackers,” the report said. “In the forecourt and on the cathedral steps were a thousand people, mostly males of an immigrant background who were indiscriminately throwing fireworks and bottles into the crowd.”
Even the appearance of police did not stop the violence.
“Around 10.45pm, the station forecourt filled with people of an immigrant background. Women literally had to run the gauntlet through the mass of drunk men, in a way you can’t describe,” the report said.
Police say the suspects are not asylum seekers and they believe the incident is not connected to the sex attacks in Cologne and other German cities.
The 21-year-old suspect and his brother are German residents. The other suspects live in Switzerland and the Netherlands.

 

[Willie99]

I'd call them dogs, but dogs are worth a lot more

they're sewer rats, they're scum

and if they lived in this country, they'd be democrats living off the rest of us

 

[Buster]

This is the scene in Amsterdam...

 

[JudgeWapner]

Sounds like a Muslim Tailhook.

 

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[h=2]Migrant rape fears spread across Europe: Vienna police chief warns women not to go out alone after assaults are carried out in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland

[/h][h=1]Migrant rape fears spread across Europe: Women told not to go out at night alone after assaults carried out in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Austria and Switzerland amid warnings gangs are co-ordinating attacks[/h][h=2]

• Sweden has issued warnings to women to be wary of potential attacks
• 15 young women have reported being groped by men in Kalmar, Sweden
• Austrian police have come under fire after claims attacks were covered-up
• Finnish police say they have information that the attacks are co-ordinated
• Vienna's police chief advises women not to go out on the streets alone
• Cologne police chief Wolfgang Albers relieved of his duties over handling of New Year's Eve sex attacks

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Security authorities are growing increasingly concerned by the rising number of sex attacks by gangs of migrants which appear to be spreading across Europe.
Finland and Sweden today became the latest European countries to issue warnings to women to be wary of the threat of sex attacks following fresh reports of sexual assaults in the last week, while the Viennese police chief adviced women not to go outside alone in Vienna.
The warnings come as reports emerged that Austrian and German police tried to cover-up the issue over fears of reprisal attacks on asylum seekers and damage to the countries' tourist trade.
Dozens of arrests have been made today in connection with the wave of recent sex attacks across Europe.

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Security authorities are growing increasingly concerned by the rising number of sex attacks by gangs of migrants which appear to be spreading across Europe

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Shocking: One officer in Cologne said it was the worst level of disrespect he had seen in a 30-year career

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Taunted: Police have revealed how the violent crowd, which was 'mainly' made up of migrants, openly mocked them as they tried to regain control of Cologne city centre in the run up to midnight on New Year's Eve

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Upon searching one man suspected of being part of the New Year Eve attacks in Cologne, police found notes translated from Arabic into Germany with phrases like: 'I'll kill you'

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Security officials try to lead away a man on New Year's Eve when a wave of sexual assaults were reported

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Reports have emerged of a gang of migrants throwing fireworks at crowds and sexually assaulting women

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Swiss artist Milo Moire holds a sign 'Respect us! We are no fair game even when we are naked!!!' as she protests naked in front of the Cologne today

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Horrfiying: One victim, an 18-year-old named Michelle (pictured, in the square outside the main train station where she was attacked) described being surrounded by a group of 30 'angry' men who groped her and her friends then stole their belongings as they fled. Police officers said women had to run a 'gauntlet' to escape

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Chaotic scenes from Cologne on New Years Eve. Similarly sexual assault cases have been reported across Europe with gangs of migrants being blamed for the attacks

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Crowds clash under Germany police, with migrants chucking fireworks in Cologne

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Cologne's mayor Henriette Reker sparked outrage by suggesting women should prevent sex attacks by keeping men at an 'arm's length'

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Women shout slogans and hold up a placard that reads 'Against Sexism - Against Racism' as they march through the main railways station of Cologne



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Finnish police said that they had been tipped off about plans by groups of asylum seekers to sexually harass women following an unusually high level of sexual harassment cases in Helsinki (pictured)

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Iraqi migrants are pictured inside a refugee center located in former barracks, in Lahti, Finland

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Swedish police say at least 15 young women have reported being groped by groups of men on New Year's Eve

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Anger: The beat bobbies who dealt with the mobs have rubbished police chief and council claims that the mob was not made up of asylum seekers, saying they saw mainly migrants on New Year's Eve



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[h=3]THE CHILLING NOTES FOUND BY POLICE ON SEX ATTACK SUSPECT IN COLOGNE[/h]Germany police have confirmed that one man they have arrested from the gang of Arab and North African men who attacked women in Cologne.
Written on pieces of paper, police discovered lurid phrases in Arabic translated into German for him to use against women victims.
Among the threatening messages was: 'I'll kill you.' The notes also had the phrase for 'nice breasts' and 'I want to have sex with you.'
The suspects arrested from the Cologne sex attacks reportedly included 9 Algerians, 8 Moroccans, 4 Syrians, 5 Iranians, 2 Germans and one each from Iraq, Serbia and the USA.



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[h=3]MIGRANTS LINKED TO ATTACKS IDENTIFIED BY GERMAN POLICE AMID ALLEGATIONS OF POLICE COVER UP[/h]German police have identified 18 asylum seekers among 31 suspects in connection with robberies and assaults committed in Cologne at New Year.
They were detained by federal police on suspicion of committing crimes ranging from theft to assault, interior ministry spokesman Tobias Plate told reporters in Berlin.
They were believed to be among a group of up to 1,000 people in front of Cologne's main railway station on Thursday evening.
None of the 31 is currently suspected of committing sexual assaults of the kind that have prompted outrage in Germany over the past week.
Mr Plate said the suspects were nine Algerians, eight Moroccans, five Iranians, four Syrians, two Germans and one person each from Iraq, Serbia and the United States.
Cologne police said they have received a total of 170 criminal complaints related to New Year, including 120 of a sexual nature. In addition to the 31 suspects detained by federal officers, city police arrested two men from North Africa, aged 16 and 23.
Austrian police have been accused of covering up the sex attacks by migrant gangs in Vienna.
Police have dismissed the claims, insisting they had held the information back 'to protect the privacy of victims'.
News of the victims in Austria, which has included several arrests of migrants from Afghanistan and Syria, was revealed after women and girls said they suffered attacks from migrants and came forward to complain to local media.
One identified as Sabrina told Austrian newspaper Osterreich that she was still suffering from shock from her ordeal which happened when she was in a club in the centre of the Mozart city of Salzburg.



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Vienna's police chief Gerhard Purstl has has caused outrage by advising women in the wake of sex attacks over New Year not to go out on the streets alone in Austria

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Three migrants from Afghanistan walk along the A3 highway shortly after they crossed from Austria into Germany in August 2015

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A German policeman checks vehicles at the border with Austrian borders amid the border crisis

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Refugees Migrants arriving at railway station in Vienna, Austria, back in September 2015



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[h=3]NORWAY OFFERS MIGRANTS COURSES IN RESPECTING WOMEN[/h]Norway is offering asylum seekers courses in how to interpret morals in a country that may seem astonishingly liberal to them.
It is hoped the course in help prevent violence against women.
Questions are also being raised about how to integrate men from patriarchal societies into Europe, where women dress skimpily, drink alcohol and party.
'Our aim is to help asylum seekers avoid mistakes as they discover Norwegian culture,' explained Linda Hagen of Hero, a private company that runs 40 percent of Norway's reception centres for asylum seekers.
'There's no single cultural code to say what is good or bad behaviour because we want a free society,' she said.
'There has to be tolerance for attitudes that may be seen as immoral by some traditional or religious norms.'



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German phrasebook found on asylum seeker sex attack suspect in Cologne included lurid phrases such as 'nice breasts' and 'I want to have sex with you'
It is the worst nightmare Chancellor Angela Merkel could have imagined for her 'open door' policy towards refugees from war zones which have seen over a million people enter the country in the last 12 months, polarizing opinion and stretching the social fabric ever thinner.
The first two suspects of gang that assaulted and robbed over 100 women on New Year's Eve were finally arrested today.
Videos of the crowds, together with the howl of fireworks and the shrieks of women they assaulted, were found on their mobile phones.
Officers found a note on one of the men containing Arabic-German translations for phrases including 'nice breasts', 'I'll kill you' and 'I want to have sex with you.'
Twelve more people are being sought in connection with 121 complaints from women attacked on the last night of the year.
Federal police, as opposed to Cologne city officers, were responsible for security inside the besieged train station. They say they quizzed nine Algerians, eight Moroccans, four Syrians, five Iranians, one Iraqi, one Serbian, and one US citizen following reports on the night.


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Danger: Some visitors have cancelled planned holidays to Cologne (pictured) and women are said to fear going out by themselves at night

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Fear: One local student told MailOnline reporter Nick Fagge (left): 'It cannot be right that women can't walk around a city in Germany without being attacked. This is not the German way'

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Results: The first two suspects of gang that assaulted and robbed over 100 women on New Year's Eve were arrested today. On one of the suspects they found a

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Manhunt: At least 12 more people are being sought in connection with 121 complaints from women attacked on the last night of the year (pictured, flowers left at the scene of the mass attack)

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Propaganda: The attacks in Cologne (pictured) and other German cities, where dozens of

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Evidence: Federal police, who were responsible for security inside the besieged train station (pictured), said theyquizzed nine Algerians, eight Moroccans, four Syrians, five Iranians, one Iraqi, one Serbian, and one US citizen following reports on the night

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Bad press: The attacks in Cologne, considered a 'progressive' and safe city, are bad news for Chancellor Angela Merkel who welcomed more than one million refugees fleeing war zones into the country

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Depraved: A note with the words, 'I'll kill you', written in German, was found on one of the men arrested in connection to the attacks

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Unsafe: There have noticeably been fewer w



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[h=1]Shall I just buy a burka and get it over with? Europe's governments may be desperate to cover it up but Cologne proves that many Muslim men have NO respect for white women - or the cultures of the countries they are invading[/h]By KATIE HOPKINS FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 16:35, 7 January 2016 | UPDATED: 11:12, 8 January 2016
We might look back and say the last day of 2015 was the start of it.
The moment when displaced people became so angered by their miserable migrant lives, they decided to take it out on the women of Cologne.
The head of police said there was a relaxed atmosphere, and the New Year’s Eve celebrations passed off peacefully.
Yet there were two rapes, 100 attacks on women, and gangs 1,000-strong harassing and thieving from others. And still we are not supposed to talk about it.



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One of the victims, identified only as Katja L, told the Kölner Express: 'When we came out of the station, we were very surprised by the group we met, which was made up only of foreign men…We walked through the group of men, there was a tunnel through them, we walked through…I was groped everywhere.
'It was a nightmare. Although we shouted and hit them, the men didn’t stop. I was horrified and I think I was touched around 100 times over the 200 metres.'



Eight days after all this happened, I am not allowed to say these were migrant gangs with no respect for white women.
The BBC will only say these were men of North African or Arab appearance, a line fed to them by the German authorities.
In time they will say race was not the issue. Just as the police did in Rochdale before the mass grooming of white kids was finally revealed. By nine Asian men.
We are still supposed to buy into the big multicultural ideal which dictates we should welcome migrants with open arms, blow whistles and applaud them as they descend from trains with their iPhones and expectations.

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We should offer our kitchens and bedrooms to these displaced peoples and cry at pictures of bodies washed ashore when they don't make it over winter seas they should never have crossed.
How about all those do-gooders who said they would welcome them into their homes? How is that going, Saint Geldof? Do you have a family in your second home?
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown? Do you have a family of fifteen in your spare room as you said you would when you wept live on radio?
No, I thought not.
We need to face up to some hard truths.
Cologne is a small case study for scenarios playing out all over Europe. It is a story repeated at Calais, across Germany and into France. And in African and Arabic countries where sexual violence is the norm.


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White women are nothing to some Islamic and Arabic men. It's the reason our girls were abused in Rochdale and Oxford and the reason white German women were raped in Cologne.
They see us as white trash. And we are no longer safe. These migrants are a cultural time-bomb, brought up in a different era, Islamic Bernard Mannings — incompatible with modern life.
The Mayor of Cologne blames the women. She says German women should cover up, keep men at arm’s length and think about wearing something over our heads. She may as well just say 'buy a burka' and be done with it.
The Guardian feminazis are caught in a monumentally difficult place, their usual outrage over victim-blaming for rape kicked quietly into touch so that they can tiptoe quietly around the issue of race and culture.
And in this difficult space, in the pressure cooker of Europe, things are on a knife edge.
As borders are sealed, people are contained into ever-tighter spaces, news is suppressed and truths are locked down.
There is no air left for even the screams of assaulted German girls to be heard in their own country where the Merkel government has ruthlessly managed coverage of its catastrophic decision to let in a million migrants at a stroke.

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This could be the moment when everything simmering beneath the surface finally erupts into violence on an unprecedented scale.
This could be the day we say it all started: New Year’s Eve 2015.
Brussels cancelled their fireworks. Paris cancelled theirs, too. France deployed 60,000 troops nationwide and London cancelled all leave for armed personnel and deployed them on our streets.
And the police forces of Cologne lied about the violence in their city, said the night passed off peacefully and later blamed the women for their rape.
Europe turned on its own and the medieval instincts of a migrant culture won.
Perhaps we will look back in 2016 and acknowledge this was the moment when civil war in Europe became a real possibility.
Migrants will rise up from the jungle of filth and squalor, bolstered by evil extremists imported for the fight. And on other side patriots will defend whatever is left of their pride in the country they once loved.
I stand with the women of Cologne. And I will continue to fight to defend the country I used to call home.

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