Cologne kicks over carnival season amid security fears

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Cologne kicks over carnival season amid security fears



COLOGNE: -- Cologne entered full party mode on Thursday as police stepped security following a series of robberies and sexual assaults on women over one month ago.

An extra 2,500 police officers have been drafted in after the shocking events that took place on New Year’s Eve in the northwestern German city.

Wolfgang Baldes, a Cologne police spokesman, told euronews that this was “double what we had last year.”

“We are observing the crowd with video-equipped vehicles from high vantage points,” he said. “We are well prepared.”

More than 900 people filed complaints with local police about those alleged crimes; half of those involved sexual violence.

Prosecutors have opened criminal proceedings against 50 people. Several of the suspects are asylum-seekers, which has sparked a fierce debate about Chancellor Angela Merkel’s asylum policy.

Germany’s ARD television published a poll on Thursday found 18 percent of those surveyed believe the German government has the crisis under control.

Euronews correspondent Sandor Zsiros reports that Cologne police were not taking any chances as officers stepped up security across the city.


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-02-05

[jaidam]

German women should cover their faces if they do not want to be verbally or physically assaulted. Either that or ask a male relative to accompany them while in public. I don't see the big deal here, it's just a small matter of adjustment.

The lack of news coming out of Cologne makes me think it all went tits-up just like on NYE.

[Krataiboy]

Prosecutors have opened criminal proceedings against 50 people. Several of the suspects are asylum-seekers, which has sparked a fierce debate about Chancellor Angela Merkel’s asylum policy.

And what about the the rest of the alleged offenders? Are they, as was widely believed at the time, mainly Muslim immigrants whose misogynistic attitudes towards "infidel" women are believed to be a major cause for the rise in sexual assaults across Europe?

The authorities are staying shtum, hiding behind the EU edict against so-called racial profiling in criminal cases. But doesn't the public - especially women - have a right to know if a particular group of immigrants poses a significant and particuarl threat to safety and security?

One needs only to look at Sweden to see what happens when misguided politicians turn a blind eye to the truth on the specious grounds that facing reality might be "racist". This nation, once the most civilised and safest of places for women, is now the rape capital of Europe, with females standing a one in four chance of being sexually violated.

Official statistics classify the offenders only as "Swedish", but leaked information from reliable sources shows the vast majority of rapes are by male migrants from mainly Islamic countries. Sweden is now actively reconsidering its immigration policies. The rest of Europe needs to do the same.

It is not racist to take what measures are necessary to protect vulnerable women and young girls. The answer is not, as the female Mayor of Cologne ludicrously suggested, to tell women to keep all men at an arm's length, but to reduce the number of potential rapists in society. One way this can be done is by scrapping the regulations on racial profiling which clearly inhibit the fight against this most odious of crimes.

Edited February 5, 2016 by Krataiboy

[Steely Dan]

You can be almost certain less people will turn up than last year and the cost of policing the carnival will be far greater. This is the corrosive effect third world Muslim culture enrichers have on their host nation.

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/02/cologne-carnival-attacks/459954/

Edited February 5, 2016 by Steely Dan

[Saradoc1972]

This is completely impossible to police. No way.

They'll obviously cover Breslauer Platz in front of the main station, Alter Markt, and half a dozen otherwise prominent locations like the Old Town in in the "Veedels", but this is literally *EVERYWHERE* all over a city of a million inhabitants not counting visitors. And there is always Düsseldorf, 50 km downstream, almost the same size. And it's locally in every small town round the periphery down the Rhine, west to Aachen, east into the Bergisch area. Oh, and there is Mainz, different state.

I suppose we will not be seeing large concentrated events, but it will come to local small but size-able outbreaks with police arriving only after the fact, if I judge the criminals from NYE right. It's too god for them to miss. I suppose with Cologne being so prominently patrolled this time Düsseldorf might be getting it.

I mean there always has been criminality round those events, lots of drunk, brawling, pick-pocketing, singular rapes, it used to go through the justice system around September/October. But it used to be isolated crime, and not of that deliberate aggressiveness. There is one Greek-German police officer Tania Kambouri who wrote a book on what this country had been coming to, how police got treated and disrespected especially by Muslim clientele and how Germany had imported criminality with them.

Criminality destabilizes a society, people will not complacently abandon their way of life.

[Steely Dan]

Twenty two arrested so far, which if New Year's Eve is anything to go by will increase many times. The police are of course refusing to give any details concerning the identity of the attackers, just in case people get the wrong (right) idea.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35502223

[Saradoc1972]

Twenty two arrested so far, which if New Year's Eve is anything to go by will increase many times. The police are of course refusing to give any details concerning the identity of the attackers, just in case people get the wrong (right) idea.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35502223

Well, there was one full rape in Cologne among those cases committed by a 17-y-o (i.e. 20) Afghan migrant.

Last year's count of sex crimes (including light cases) over the whole Carnival (i.e. till Wednesday) was 50.

Thursday (Weiberfastnacht) was the big day, Friday (Totentag) is traditionally quiet as people sleep off their headache, Saturday will be big, Sunday quiet, Monday (Rosenmontag) will be the big bang, after that it tapers off.

Don't know if our "guests" will keep to that schedule.

Meanwhile, elsewhere...

One rape in Stukenbrok, up north Westphalia, by a Nigerian.

A couple of light grabbings down-south Bavaria by Africans, which they apparently arrested,

One molestation in Erding, Bavaria by someone thought to be Syrian; well, they all say they are right now.

And counting... links are naturally in German.

[jaidam]

News is slowly trickling out, no surprises that it was mayhem on the streets again. 22 rapes and sexual assaults reported already on the 1st night(expect this number to rise 10 fold or 100 fold as on NYE).

Also a childrens carnival party in Herne was cancelled after threats from immigrants to what they called "infidel" children. BTW these were children in the old sense ie. not 2 meter tall balding savages, but little vulnerable kiddies.

[USNret]

I mean there always has been criminality round those events, lots of drunk, brawling, pick-pocketing, singular rapes, it used to go through the justice system around September/October. But it used to be isolated crime, and not of that deliberate aggressiveness. There is one Greek-German police officer Tania Kambouri who wrote a book on what this country had been coming to, how police got treated and disrespected especially by Muslim clientele and how Germany had imported criminality with them.

Criminality destabilizes a society, people will not complacently abandon their way of life.

You make it sound almost as good as the Full Moon Party. Which also is infested with loud, rude foreigners seeking cheap drugs and sex.

[katana]

Twenty two arrested so far, which if New Year's Eve is anything to go by will increase many times. The police are of course refusing to give any details concerning the identity of the attackers, just in case people get the wrong (right) idea.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35502223

Well, there was one full rape in Cologne among those cases committed by a 17-y-o (i.e. 20) Afghan migrant.

Last year's count of sex crimes (including light cases) over the whole Carnival (i.e. till Wednesday) was 50.

Thursday (Weiberfastnacht) was the big day, Friday (Totentag) is traditionally quiet as people sleep off their headache, Saturday will be big, Sunday quiet, Monday (Rosenmontag) will be the big bang, after that it tapers off.

Don't know if our "guests" will keep to that schedule.

Meanwhile, elsewhere...

One rape in Stukenbrok, up north Westphalia, by a Nigerian.

A couple of light grabbings down-south Bavaria by Africans, which they apparently arrested,

One molestation in Erding, Bavaria by someone thought to be Syrian; well, they all say they are right now.

And counting... links are naturally in German.

There was also this one in Austria involving a 10 year old boy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/12144039/Iraqi-migrant-admits-raping-boy-in-Austrian-pool-after-having-too-much-sexual-energy.html

Edited February 7, 2016 by katana

[NeverSure]

The link in post 4 here says there were "hundreds" of women molested on NYE. So quiet the news is on it.

I just read that there are riots and protests in Sweden as the government proposed to close a local school and turn it into a "refugee" shelter.

It's madness.

[jaidam]

The link in post 4 here says there were "hundreds" of women molested on NYE. So quiet the news is on it.

I just read that there are riots and protests in Sweden as the government proposed to close a local school and turn it into a "refugee" shelter.

It's madness.

It's now over 1,000 assaults. Quite a leap from NYE past peacefully to over 1,000 women were assaulted on mass. Quite a leap indeed. Not surprising Swedes are going barmy, considering large parts of Malmo and several other southern cities are effectively no-go zones for ethnic Swedes esp females.

[Saradoc1972]

I mean there always has been criminality round those events, lots of drunk, brawling, pick-pocketing, singular rapes, it used to go through the justice system around September/October. But it used to be isolated crime, and not of that deliberate aggressiveness. There is one Greek-German police officer Tania Kambouri who wrote a book on what this country had been coming to, how police got treated and disrespected especially by Muslim clientele and how Germany had imported criminality with them.

Criminality destabilizes a society, people will not complacently abandon their way of life.

You make it sound almost as good as the Full Moon Party. Which also is infested with loud, rude foreigners seeking cheap drugs and sex.

Oh, you've seen it for yourself? Cologne or Düsseldorf?

[Scott]

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[Scott]

An inflammatory post as been removed. Continuing to refer to the migrants as rapeugees will result in suspension.