EU Immigration Crisis Megathread

[Liep]

OMG Grallon and Crazy Ivan was right

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/01/01/blind-mystic-baba-vanga-predicts-isis-invasion-of-europe_n_8903050.html

[Legbiter]

Around 60 complaints have been made to the police in Cologne after a group of around 1,000 men attacked revellers in the city centre in a brutal and "completely unheard of" way, Wolfgang Albers, Chief of Police in the Rhineland city said at a press conference on Monday afternoon.

Around a third of the complaints were of sexual assault, regional paper Express reported.

"There was a very large number of sexual assaults there - and in a massive way. Women were grabbed and attacked," said Albers, adding that in one case the alleged crime fitted the legal definition of rape.

"The crimes were committed by a group of people who from appearance were largely from the north African or Arab world," the police chief added.

A group of around 500 men between the ages of 15 and 35 assembled at the central train station and in the area of the cathedral before throwing firecrackers into the masses of people celebrating the arrival of the new year.

This appears to have been a means of causing distraction, as during the disturbance groups of young men entered the crowd where they sexually assaulted women and pick-pocketed revellers.

http://www.thelocal.de/20160104/refugees-blamed-for-mass-sexual-assault-in-cologne

[The Brain]

Around 60 complaints have been made to the police in Cologne after a group of around 1,000 men attacked revellers in the city centre in a brutal and "completely unheard of" way, Wolfgang Albers, Chief of Police in the Rhineland city said at a press conference on Monday afternoon.

Around a third of the complaints were of sexual assault, regional paper Express reported.

"There was a very large number of sexual assaults there - and in a massive way. Women were grabbed and attacked," said Albers, adding that in one case the alleged crime fitted the legal definition of rape.

"The crimes were committed by a group of people who from appearance were largely from the north African or Arab world," the police chief added.

A group of around 500 men between the ages of 15 and 35 assembled at the central train station and in the area of the cathedral before throwing firecrackers into the masses of people celebrating the arrival of the new year.

This appears to have been a means of causing distraction, as during the disturbance groups of young men entered the crowd where they sexually assaulted women and pick-pocketed revellers.

http://www.thelocal.de/20160104/refugees-blamed-for-mass-sexual-assault-in-cologne

At least HuffPo US won't mention that they're Arabs.

[Duque de Bragança]

In Cologne, gayest city of Germany, no less.

[Syt]

According to police there are ca. 80 suspects, the large majority of them police-known repeat offenders, i.e. not refugees fresh off the boat.

Looks like some gangs used the crowd to "blend in" and then stage their attacks.

[Richard Hakluyt]

This story has just made it onto the BBC :

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35231046

[Tamas]

According to police there are ca. 80 suspects, the large majority of them police-known repeat offenders, i.e. not refugees fresh off the boat.

Looks like some gangs used the crowd to "blend in" and then stage their attacks.

IDK. 80 out of 1000 isn't that much, and obviously police would most easily identify and go after repeat offenders.

[Legbiter]

At least HuffPo US won't mention that they're Arabs.

The story was reported on the website of the national broadcaster here, having been carefully sanitized, so no mention of any hatefacts such as the ethnic nature of the attackers. Other media outlets here are studiously ignoring it as it would clash with their Gutmensch narrative.

[Liep]

It's not unusual for youth groups to want to disrupt other people's parties but in those numbers? That's pretty insane. How did they even organize it?

[Liep]

Yesterday Denmark started doing random controls at maybe 25% of our borders with Germany and still the newspapers are surprised that we're getting asylum seekers today.

[Syt]

In retalilation, German border shops should stop selling alcohol to bearers of Danish passports.

[Liep]

In retalilation, German border shops should stop selling alcohol to bearers of Danish passports.

Then they might as well just close.

[Zanza]

At least HuffPo US won't mention that they're Arabs.

The story was reported on the website of the national broadcaster here, having been carefully sanitized, so no mention of any hatefacts such as the ethnic nature of the attackers. Other media outlets here are studiously ignoring it as it would clash with their Gutmensch narrative.

German media clearly states that the perpetrators are of North African or Middle Eastern origin. No Gutmensch narrative there.
That said, even 1000 would be just 1/10 percent of the migrants that came to Germany this year and as Syt pointed out police thinks that it was a known gang of drug dealers at Cologne's main station.
And as guilt is individual, not collective in Germany we need to find the perpetrators and not the ethnic group they belong to. I guess we might need more police resources in the years to come...

[Richard Hakluyt]

The Guardian has more details :

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/05/germany-crisis-cologne-new-years-eve-sex-attacks

Pretty big gang of drug dealers.

[Zanza]

Can't read the Guardian article as McDonalds in Argentina blocks it.

German media and police say it was groups of 3 to 20 that actually committed the acts. The bigger figure of thousand people is the entire number of people celebrating in the square, i.e. victims, perpetrators and bystanders.