A political scandal is developing in Germany as ordinary
citizens wake up to the scale of the migrant crime cover-up, and the
callous reaction of the mayor of Cologne to mass-sex crime on new year’s
eve.
The Mayor of Cologne has spoken out about the attacks,
but her carefully chosen words are unlikely to delight many. Rather
than addressing the root causes of the violence — unlimited mass
migration and a totally failed system of integration — the newly elected
pro-migrant mayor instead blamed the victims of the sexual abuse for
having failed to defend themselves against the immigrant attackers.
Speaking on live television this afternoon mayor Henriette Reker, who was near-fatally stabbed
in the run up to October elections by an anti mass migration
campaigner, said in future women would have to be better prepared in her
city to deal with migrants. She remarked: “The women and young girls
have to be more protected in the future so these things don’t happen
again.
A firework explodes among the crowd outside the railway station / Youtube
“This means, they should go out and have fun, but they need to be
better prepared, especially with the Cologne carnival coming up. For
this, we will publish online guidelines that these young women can read
through to prepare themselves”.
What form this guidance will take is presently unclear, the mayor
could take inspiration from young victim whose modest clothes protected
them from the worst consequences of walking at night in areas controlled
by migrant men. The woman said: “Fortunately I wore a jacket and
trousers. a skirt would probably have been torn away from me”.
Despite her words of warning towards women in the city they could
prepare for more violence against them, she refuted the suggestion there
was any link between the attacks and migrants, contradicting her own chief of police.
An opposition council member has today sounded the alarm bell on the
deteriorating state of control the local government has over the city of
Cologne, and in an official letter from the council group has warned
those planning to come to the famous Cologne council next month “the
city and the police… are unable to guarantee the safety of locals and
tourists”.
enthusiastically
pro-migrant mayor of Cologne Rekker pictured the day before she was
stabbed in October. The man who attacked her was identified in the press
as a “racist” who wanted to prevent her enacting pro-migrant policies
on the city / OLIVER BERG/AFP/Getty Images
Council group leader and lawyer Judith Wolter said in her letter
to the people of Cologne today: “I want as a member of the Cologne City
Council… to submit a travel warning for the carnival time in Cologne
city centre.
“Especially the area in and around the central station, the cathedral
and the adjoining area towards the banks of the Rhine for tourists (and
locals) is no longer considered even in normal times as safe. For
months, there is in these areas numerous thefts, open drug dealing,
robberies and harassment of all kinds… Dozens of women were sexually
harassed in public and there was at least one rape.
“Neither the city nor the police are able to guarantee in the
territory described the safety of tourists and locals. Especially for
women it must be assumed that a high security risk is here in the
evening and night hours. At New Year’s Eve there was a legal vacuum and a
no-go area for women. With the climax of the Carnival season it is
unfortunately expected to be a similar situation”.
German police have admitted
to losing several urban areas to migrant gangs as so-called no-go
zones, but this is possibly the first time a public square in the centre
of a European city has been acknowledged by officials as having been
lost to criminality, and out of the control of police at night.
News of the attacks was suppressed for days, with just short reports
of isolated incidents in Cologne city centre making it to local
outlets on New Year’s Day.
The Kolnifsche Rundschau described
the scene at the railways station as “largely peaceful” and made no
effort to describe those who attacked the young women, one of which told
press she had “fingers on every orifice” after she was stripped near
naked.
Only after nearly 100 victims of assault and abuse came forwards to
police, and stories of attacks started circulating on social media did
the truth of the situation start to slowly emerge, forcing local police
to hold a press conference on Monday afternoon.
Despite the chief of police admitting the enormous scale of sexual
assault and confirming the attackers were of “North African and Arab”
origin, much of the mainstream media is still in damage control mode,
either trying to shift the focus from migrants, or avoiding the events
completely.
Cologne
has been the scene of PEGIDA protests in the past. Here, Cologne
cathedral, the steps of which were the scene for some of the events on
new year’s eve is seen with its lights out to protest the presence of
PEGIDA in the city, and their warnings of the potential side effects of
mass migration
Many have now spoken out to decry the self-censorship of the German
media, and the apparent cover-up which only saw events truthfully
reported after exposure on social media and the new media. Huffington Post Deutschland have published
a scathing editorial criticising the police and media for their
handling of events. Not just for failing to keep order in the first
place, but for covering up events and even while appealing for witnesses
obscuring exactly what was happening and not releasing descriptions of
suspects.
The author said the fact Cologne police had so far only arrested five
people in relation to the attacks — and even those only two days later —
left people wondering “why precisely in places like train stations
there is such enormous security camera surveillance if they obviously
can’t be used to get more detailed descriptions of the perpetrators”.
The reason for the cover-up, it was reasoned, is a desire by the police
to preserve public order — and any sort of violent reaction to the
attacks.
Breitbart London was the first
news site in the English-speaking world to report on the horrific
attacks that took place against German men and women on new year’s eve
by a large gang of migrant Arabs and North Africans. Since that time, Breitbart has received a number of messages from eye witnesses to chaos in other German cities.
The daughter of a priest described Munich on new year’s eve as a
“warzone”, with “Arab looking” “foreign young men” deliberately
launching fireworks into crowds of revellers. Another woman emailed to
report on girls being sexually assaulted and robbed in Stuttgart. In Detmold, North Rhine-Westphalia local
news media described an attacker there who assaulted two 21-year old
women as “dark skin type” with a beard, but declined to say more.
In the United Kingdom, several news outlets have followed Breitbart’s coverage, including the Daily Mail which acknowledged Breitbart for breaking the story. Most remarkable is the coverage by the state-owned BBC.
Despite the media giant even having their own offices in Cologne, their
report published this afternoon sticks to the facts as published by
Cologne local media days ago — and fails to mention migrants until the
18th paragraph.
In similar style, German BBC equivalent Deutsche Welle only mentioned the description of the attackers in the tenth paragraph of their reporting on Cologne published today.
Breitbart London is still waiting on comment from Cologne Police.
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