Duesseldorf, Cologne tourism officials statement on safety, security for upcoming Carnival season

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Duesseldorf and Cologne tourism officials statement on safety and security for the upcoming Carnival season

COLOGNE: -- World famous and a spectacular unique to two German cities, Cologne and Duesseldorf. It's the Carnival topping with the Rose Monday parade.

The number one concern for tourists wanting to attend this year is not how much the price of Alt beer in Duesseldorf or Koelsch in Cologne is , but how safe it is to watch the parade.

Rose Monday will be on February 8 this year.

The excitement about this day of fun, party with friends of family is toned down after sexual attacks by refugees on women last New Years night.

The incident was widely discussed and made it even to be mentioned by candidates of the U.S. presidential election this year.

Full story: http://www.eturbonews.com/67636/duesseldorf-and-cologne-tourism-officials-statement-safety-and-s

-- eTN 2016-01-18

[trogers]

What has changed since last year?

[NeverSure]

Oh, just some of the wonderful multiculturalism.

[RickBradford]

Women will be perfectly safe as long as they follow some simple guidelines.

1. Women should not go out alone. If they are accompanied by a male, it should be a member of her own family.

2. They should wear a complete covering that covers them from head-to-toe including her hands and entire face so that only the eyes are visible through a small slit. Hair must be covered.

3. They should refrain from lewd singing and dancing.

4. No khalwat physical proximity to males is permitted.

4. Alcohol is haram forbidden.

5. Smoking is forbidden.

Have a good time!

[DM07]

What hypocracy!

As if women have never been harassed during carneval, by drunken Germans!

[baboon]

What hypocracy!

As if women have never been harassed during carneval, by drunken Germans!

A bit different than being preyed upon by organised gangs of religious nutters who hate them and being offered little to no protection from the state, not that two wrongs make a right...

[Baerboxer]

What hypocracy!

As if women have never been harassed during carneval, by drunken Germans!

A bit different than being preyed upon by organised gangs of religious nutters who hate them and being offered little to no protection from the state, not that two wrongs make a right...

Indeed. A drunken idiot would be dealt with by peer pressure or by the crowd in general.

Bit different when confronted by organized gangs of aggressive religious zealots, hunting in packs, and believing they are doing their god's will in carrying out such attacks.

Pity the police - under funded, under staffed, and answerable to PC loonies who think everything is the fault of the victims and Europeans; and are quite willing to cover up anything that says otherwise.

I worked in both Dusseldorf and Cologne in the past. Lovely cities, and always felt very safe there. Now it must be like some parts of the UK.

[NeverSure]

I have an idea. Why don't those Muslims TTIT?*

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* Try That In Texas.

[Saradoc1972]

What hypocracy!

As if women have never been harassed during carneval, by drunken Germans!

A bit different than being preyed upon by organised gangs of religious nutters who hate them and being offered little to no protection from the state, not that two wrongs make a right...

Indeed. A drunken idiot would be dealt with by peer pressure or by the crowd in general.

Bit different when confronted by organized gangs of aggressive religious zealots, hunting in packs, and believing they are doing their god's will in carrying out such attacks.

Pity the police - under funded, under staffed, and answerable to PC loonies who think everything is the fault of the victims and Europeans; and are quite willing to cover up anything that says otherwise.

I worked in both Dusseldorf and Cologne in the past. Lovely cities, and always felt very safe there. Now it must be like some parts of the UK.

Can confirm. Usually, in Cologne the happenings during Carnival make it through the court-system round August-September. And there have always been petty thievery, brawling, drink driving, and people getting to frisky over their "Bützchen" (the kisses girls will give to perfect strangers when they like your looks or costumes), and there would have been a handful of rapes in any given year. All by the local German population.

But there has never been anything in both quality and quantity like what happened on NYE, and there usually was "policing by consent" instead of a need for "policing by force" until police find themselves overwhelmed.

But actually, I don't think it has so much to do with "their god's will". I don't like Islam one bit, but this is more down to their so-called culture, socialization, and deep despise of us Westerners.

It's like two threads on a computer's OS watching each other and restarting each other when one breaks down.

There is a book out by a former mayor of Berlin Neukölln, Heinz Buschkowski, I suppose he knows what he's writing, been there for 25 years. And he's writing that some Turkish or Arab would leave their heavily segregated area because they were fed up being called bad Muslims/Arabs/Turks/whatnot when they let their daughter run about without a headscarf or did anything else not conform with Islam; I suppose the same goes when they "live out" their "culture" and then need to justify this, that's when Islam kicks in.