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When
the migrants began arriving in their thousands each day last summer,
there were welcoming parties across the country. ‘We love refugees!’
proclaimed banners outside reception centres.
Yet
that warm hospitality is now being replaced by fear, as a society
renowned for its good order begins to buckle under the strain — and to
worry if it has made a mistake.
Figures
this week revealed that 1.1 million newcomers registered for asylum in
Germany in 2015. Many more — including potential jihadists and
opportunists pretending to be refugees — are suspected of slipping in
under the radar since August, when German Chancellor Angela Merkel
controversially announced she would welcome all Syrian migrants who
knocked on the door. Mrs Merkel has since dramatically changed her tune,
saying this week that she wanted to stem the flow of migrants into the
European Union, while keeping all borders open.
Denmark
began passport checks on its border this week, and border controls have
also been imposed by other countries including Sweden and Hungary,
threatening Mrs Merkel and the EU’s cherished Schengen agreement,
allowing free movement between member states."...
In Cologne, Germany, on New Year's Eve, 1000 male migrants circled women, 190 police officers had no effect:
"The men,
speaking Arabic and seemingly either drunk or high on drugs, moved
around in large groups among a gathering of around 1,000 male migrants
and deliberately targeted women. The men easily outnumbered the 190
police officers on duty, who were quickly overwhelmed.
In
other cities across Germany, including Stuttgart, Dusseldorf, Hamburg,
Munich and Berlin, where a tourist was sexually assaulted by five men
right in front of the famous Brandenburg Gate, it was the same
disturbing story.
Nearly
50 women in Hamburg complained to police about sexual harassment by
‘North African’ men, who called them ‘bitches’, shouted ‘Fikki, fikki’
to indicate they wanted to rape them, and ‘chased’ them ‘like cattle’
around the streets....
When one group of young girls refused
these men’s advances, their boyfriends were beaten up. One girl who
fought off an attacker ended up in hospital with a broken nose and deep
cuts to her face....
The
programme’s editor defended her decision, saying: ‘We don’t want to
inflame the situation and spread a bad mood. The migrants don’t deserve
it.’
The
Cologne police force has also been accused of deliberately hushing up
the New Year scandal. It issued an official press release the following
day describing the celebrations as ‘exuberant, but mostly peaceful’. The
release has since been retracted, and last night it emerged that police
chief Wolfgang Albers is to resign.
And until
Thursday, a week after the attacks, there had been silence from Mrs
Merkel’s ministers about the backgrounds of the perpetrators. Initially,
they insisted there was no evidence that new migrants were involved in
the violence.
A
leaked police report which emerged 48 hours ago showed this was far
from the truth. It revealed that one of the Cologne attackers said: ‘I
am Syrian. You have to treat me kindly: Mrs Merkel invited me.’
The
report by a senior officer added: ‘When we arrived [at the square] our
vehicles were pelted with firecrackers. On the cathedral steps were a
thousand people, mainly of immigrant background, who were
indiscriminately throwing fireworks and bottles into the crowd.
Another
unnamed officer told a Cologne newspaper that 14 of those questioned on
the night were from Syria and one from Afghanistan.
‘That’s the truth, though it hurts to say it,’ he added. ‘They had definitely only been in Germany for a few days or weeks.’
By
yesterday morning, police had arrested only two of the alleged sex
attackers, who said they had immigrant backgrounds. Videos of the
crowds, together with the howl of fireworks and the shrieks of women
they assaulted, were found on their mobile phones....Both have now been released due to lack of evidence....
The involvement by
foreigners flies in the face of
Germany’s PC lobby which has
Catholic
journalist Matthias Matussek lost his job at the respected German
newspaper Die Welt after he posted his views on November’s massacre in
Paris on his personal Facebook page, saying mildly: ‘I think that the
terror in Paris will move our (German) debate about open borders and…young Muslim men in our country in an entirely new and fresh direction.’
Despite
the censorship, unpalatable truths have still slipped out....
Andre
Schulz, head of Germany’s criminal police association, said recently
that in his experience 10 per cent of the migrants would turn to
criminality, including theft, sexual assault or drug dealing.
Meanwhile,
an academic report this week claims that hundreds of thousands of young
male migrants arriving in Europe will threaten the peace and stability
of Germany and other Western nations. Out of those who came last year,
18 per cent were children and
just 13 per cent
were women.
Even charity workers have been horrified by the behaviour of some of the new guests....
A
letter also sent last year by prominent women’s groups to the
Integration Minister in the state of Hesse, central Germany, where a
huge camp housing 6,000 migrants has been set up in the town of Giessen,
described a culture of rape and violence.
‘Women
and children are unprotected here. This situation is opportune to those
men who already regard women as their inferiors and treat unaccompanied
women as “fair game”. There are numerous rapes, sexual assaults and
forced prostitution.’
The worry is that same rape culture has now spilt out onto Germany’s streets.
Even
now, Cologne’s pro-migrant mayor, Henriette Reker, still appears to be
in denial. At a Press conference, she contradicted police by saying that
newly-arrived migrants had not been to blame.
She
said that, to prevent future attacks, women should follow a new ‘code
of conduct’ soon to be published online by the council. They should keep
strangers ‘at arm’s length’, stick together in groups, and not get
split up even if they were ‘in the party mood’.
It
is not just Germany. Other European countries with large numbers of
male migrants also endured a spate of New Year sex attacks. Women in
Switzerland and Austria were targeted. Yesterday, Vienna’s police chief,
Gerhard Purstl, provoked outrage when he warned women not to go out
alone at night.
Extra
security guards, hired by police for the night, said there was trouble
when 2,000 other migrants caused ‘widespread sexual harassment’ in the
square.
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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.
Dozens of arrests have been made today in connection with the wave of recent sex attacks across Europe."...
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Rick Klein
