These men bring with them African values that have no place in Europe; they treat white women like objects, without respect."

[superbeets]

"These men bring with them African values that have no place in Europe; they treat white women like objects, without respect."



"Speak to the women victims of Cologne and it is clear that the hour is coming when Germans will no longer have the luxury of looking away."




"I screamed for help but everywhere I looked the same thing was happening; attack and robbery."
Female victim

 

[superbeets]

Cologne sex attacks: 'Something terrible took place here. But it's as though it never happened'

POLICE ARREST A MAN AT THE MAIN RAILWAY STATION IN COLOGNE AND JUDITH WOODS (INSET) OUTSIDE THE STATION CREDIT: AFP/WARREN ALLOTT

• Judith Woods, in cologne

8 JANUARY 2016 • 9:00PM

"I'm angry at what happened to the women of Cologne but I am also angry at the conspiracy of silence that has followed."


Ilse, 32, looks searchingly around the city’s main square flanked on one side by the railway station and on the other by the city's twin-towered Gothic cathedral.

On this crisp winter's morning, it feels laughably far from the no-go area for women described by Cologne’s city councillor – far right activist Judith Wolter - earlier this week. A bustling thoroughfare, it is the very heart of this socially and politically liberal city, where couples wrapped up against the cold drink coffee at outdoor tables and groups of excited school children are led up the steps into the historic church.
Some pause, almost puzzled by the little posies of flowers that lie by the railings; ushered on before they can read the inscription on the card: "Solidarity with the victims of the attacks of New Year's Eve. These acts must never be repeated."

Flowers with messages reading: "you don't hit people even with flowers" pictured on the steps around the main train station in Cologne CREDIT: WARREN ALLOTT/TELEGRAPH



For Isle, however, they are unlikely to be forgotten. While unharmed, days on, she is still traumatised by the terrible events of New Year's Eve when female revellers were sexually attacked, humiliated and robbed by up to 1,000 men described as being of North African or Middle Eastern appearance.


"Something terrible took place here, but it's as if it never occurred," she says. "I was there in the chaos and terror and I saw the police doing nothing. And now we are expected to say nothing? Just because the perpetrators were immigrants? This is another attack on women; first on our bodies, now on our rights."

 

[superbeets]

"It was terrifying, I got separated from my boyfriend and as they were pulling at my clothes. I thought I would be raped right there in public," says one 26-year-old woman. "I screamed for help but everywhere I looked the same thing was happening; attack and robbery. But just women. They targeted us because we were women."


Victims suffered permanent burns as the men threw fireworks into the crowd to cause fear and confusion.

A father told how he watched helplessly, clutching his baby son as his partner and 15-year-old daughter were swept away and mauled by men thrusting hands inside their jeans and underwear.


As I listen to the eye witness accounts, it's clear that what happened that night was criminal and shocking. But the egregious official cover-up has since escalated the situation and thrown a harsh spotlight onChancellor Angela Merkel's unilateral open door refugee policy.

Picture taken on January 1, 2016 shows police arresting a man as people gather in front of the main railway station in Cologne CREDIT: AFP/GETTY IMAGES






The police, wary of appearing racist (it's not an exclusively German paranoia as the cover ups of Rochdale and Rotherham will attest) did not intervene. They also stated categorically that there was no evidence refugees were among the assailants which has now been proved as a falsehood; leaked papers have shown they knew from the very outset.


Then in a bizarre act of self-censorship one major television network deliberately chose not to report the story. It was several days before the news got out, despite the fact over 100 women had come forward and variously reported assault, robbery and, in two cases, rape.


"I would deport the lot of them," says Isabella Prodam, 24 who speaks in agitated tones. "New Year's Eve was a nightmare. These men bring with them African values that have no place in Europe; they treat white women like objects, without respect. I lived in Africa for three years and when I did, I obeyed their customs. They must do the same or go home."

 

[superbeets]

Her openness and anger are vanishingly rare in a city, a country where there is great - some might say excessive - sensitivity over actual or implied right wing views.


When a checklist of German cultural expectations was recently printed in Arabic for asylum seekers - banal advice such as 'Punctuality is Important' and 'Do Not Touch Women in the Street' - it was met with derision and decried as 'discriminatory' by the left wing press here.


This blanket refusal to treat or even acknowledge incomers from a very different, male-dominated culture as "other" has led to an extraordinary myopia over the social and religious chasm that now exists between the general population and its growing ethnic minority.

Fireworks outside Cologne station




It is also the attitude that pervades Cologne – even among some women here.


"What happened in Cologne is awful, but we can't blame the entire immigrant population for it," cautions Ursula, 60. "We have to maintain a perspective. Bad things can happen anywhere." She sees nothing contradictory about the fact she now feels the need to keep her purse hidden inside her coat and smilingly pats carry the concealed rape alarm beneath her scarf.


I ask another smartly dressed woman in her 40s about the attacks. She shrugs and says: "I was on the other side of the railway station," as though being 400 yards away absolved her of an opinion.
"Don't you feel solidarity with the women who were attacked?" I press her. "I feel solidarity with all of mankind," she retorts crisply as she strides off.



The sins of the past still weigh heavy on Germany; welcoming over one million refugees is not just about economics, it is a point of principle, a symbolic and humanitarian gesture that represents as a salve to the collective conscience.
"This is a common problem for the Germans," concedes medical student Tilman Zadow, 18. "Because of our past we don't want to appear prejudiced against other races. We worry that even mentioning someone's skin colour or place of origin might be construed as racist so healthy debate is closed down before it can even start."

 

[superbeets]

His girlfriend and fellow medical student Lena Reimer, 18, admits to frustration at the current atmosphere of victim-blaming. Cologne's women were told by their female mayor, Henriette Reker, to protect themselves from such attacks in future by keeping “more than an arm’s length away” from strangers. With an eye on carnival celebrations that begin in the city next month, she also urged women to “stick together in groups”.



"I feel angry that women are being expected to change their behaviour" says Miss Reimer. "I have nothing against refugees and I believe we should allow them into the country, but women are the victims here yet it is our freedom that is being curtailed."
In the last few days it has slowly emerged that similar attacks occurred in Bielefeld, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Berlin. In every case women were seized, forcibly kissed by multiple strangers and preyed upon. Around 50 have reported their assaults to the police.

Lena Reimer, 18




It's an utterly horrifying crime wave, yet again and again those I speak prefer not to make uncomfortable connections or examine the wider implications.
Late in the evening the main railway station is brightly lit and welcoming, shops - Esprit, Accessorise, The Body Shop - are doing a brisk trade along the concourse.


But the area is bristling with burly policemen and as I look on, two scruffy non-European men are seized, patted down and arrested. Sheafs of paper are passed about from one officer to another. It subsequently transpires that two rape suspects were arrested in the station, carrying crib sheets of crude phrases with which to attract women's attention - though they were later released for lack of evidence.


Were those the pair I saw? I have no idea. Commuters and shoppers hurried by, aware, surely of the menacing atmosphere, the dull clank of metal handcuffs - but pointedly refusing to take notice.
That is of course their choice. But speak to the women victims of Cologne and it is clear that the hour is coming when Germans will no longer have the luxury of looking away.

 

[GasMan]

Yup, the Dems are all for importing them here....and then will harp on women's rights in the meantime.

 

[ScottL]

I already know how this ends. Savages will keep murdering, knifing, shooting, bombing, raping until the civilized people of the world have finally had enough. Then the civilized people will savagely murder hundreds of thousands of savages in order that civilized society can sustain itself. Now isn't that ironic. It will be a gut-wrenching time for all of humanity. And probably the US that pushes the buttons. But it's coming.

 

[GasMan]

Yup. And the left will demonize the right and trump for trying to curtail its progress here....all for political gain.

 

[ScottL]

I don't really care much for Trump. His principles are pretty selective. I watched a few seasons of the Apprentice. He let Joan Rivers get away with more BS than any 5 other contestants combined, and then won the show for her.

 

[GasMan]

I don't really either, but he is what we need right now to restore balance to the Galaxy.

 

[Dave007inVegas]

I don't really care much for Trump. His principles are pretty selective. I watched a few seasons of the Apprentice. He let Joan Rivers get away with more BS than any 5 other contestants combined, and then won the show for her.

Really? That’s why you don’t care much for Trump?

 

[SheriffJoe]

I don't really either, but he is what we need right now to restore balance to the Galaxy.

If Trump is elected, I'll probably "self-ban" myself from this forum for the simple reason the things that need to be done will make the loony left go apologetic.

The slow transition from political correctness back to a world of sanity will be very painful for all the lefty special interests.

 

[ScottL]

Really? That’s why you don’t care much for Trump?

Listen Toots before I moitalize ya - I used it as an example of his lack of principles. If another contestant had done what Joan did he would have schlonged, I mean fired her!

 

[Dave007inVegas]

Listen Toots before I moitalize ya - I used it as an example of his lack of principles. If another contestant had done what Joan did he would have schlonged, I mean fired her!

Don’t take offense to this but IMO watching the Apprentice is akin to watching WWE RAW. A better use of your time would be observing paint drying.

 

[ScottL]

Don’t take offense to this but IMO watching the Apprentice is akin to watching WWE RAW. A better use of your time would be observing paint drying.

We all find different ways to be amused. I love the Real World Road Rules Challenge. Great TV. I only saw a few seasons of Apprentrice.

 

[SheriffJoe]

I already know how this ends. Savages will keep murdering, knifing, shooting, bombing, raping until the civilized people of the world have finally had enough. Then the civilized people will savagely murder hundreds of thousands of savages in order that civilized society can sustain itself. Now isn't that ironic. It will be a gut-wrenching time for all of humanity. And probably the US that pushes the buttons. But it's coming.

Jesus! You sound like psycho Sheriff Joe!

Now THAT IS scary!

:hanging:

 

[Dave007inVegas]

We all find different ways to be amused. I love the Real World Road Rules Challenge. Great TV. I only saw a few seasons of Apprentrice.

Damn Zippy, I never heard of the show until now. So I looked it up and found out why. I have never tuned in to MTV and I doubt I ever will.


Not that my preference is anything spectacular, I can watch reruns of NCIS, Criminal Minds. NYPD Blue endlessly and enjoy them but for some reason reality TV doesn’t do it for me.


Different strokes for different folks I guess.

 

[SheriffJoe]

They're calling them "asylum seekers" now...

The left is beyond sick.

 

[ScottL]

Damn Zippy, I never heard of the show until now. So I looked it up and found out why. I have never tuned in to MTV and I doubt I ever will.


Not that my preference is anything spectacular, I can watch reruns of NCIS, Criminal Minds. NYPD Blue endlessly and enjoy them but for some reason reality TV doesn’t do it for me.


Different strokes for different folks I guess.

Catfish, Real Real, Real World Road Rules Challenge, all good shows. I do watch a few of the network 1 hour dramas as well. Loved NYPD Blue. What episode is Andrea Thompson practically undressed? I enjoy Criminal Minds as well, although I think the writers will probably become serial killers after the show ends. I mean those plots are ridiculous. How about the one where the guy kidnaps women looking for the perfect wife, and then when he's about to murder one he puts on the vinyl of a Brenton Wood song, "I got a great big bundle of love.'' Come On