Pete,
It's not just Cologne, authorities in Stuttgart, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Vienna, Stockholm and Helsinki have now had to admit that they've been covering up mass assaults upon Eeuropean women by non European men, the Finns have even advised women to avoid going out alone at night.
Could it simply be the case that good chunk of the worst elements of West Asian and African society, the gangsters, ne-er do wells,idlers and street urchins have decided that the streets of Cologne, Dresden and Copenhagen offer richer pickings for thieves and the freedom to rape without serious legal repercussions or the possibility of revenge attacks by the male relatives of their victims?

don't forget Brussels Jay where the greatest haters of Howard, Bush Blair and Abbott (obviously beside our resident feminist) reside. Reaping the fruit of more failed regressive dogma. Merkel and the sisterhood must be so proud although I suspect many women will now be looking for a man to protect them on the streets. NOt everyone can have body guards (like Merkel) while making it treachorous for all other women.

The perpetrators need to be deported, that is a fair rule isn’t it. Send out the right message. Scratching and scraping around like there was nothing that can be done about it is stupid. Be precise and act, to warn women of not to go out at night I would say is crap.
We could say that here as the streets are full to the brim with terrorists, as some would have you believe. Just another version of islamaphobia. I do not know how people can sleep at night with that running around in your head.

'Be precise and act, to warn women of not to go out at night I would say is crap.'

the thousands that have been rpaed/molested might not think so.

Hi 579,

What a pity - you started out okay, and then lurched to ridiculous hyperbole:

"We could say that here as the streets are full to the brim with terrorists, as some would have you believe. Just another version of islamaphobia."

'Full to the brim' ? Says who ? Blokes groping women is perhaps not terrorism, but it is bound to make women fearful. Ask your sister.

Around a thousand blokes grope about a hundred women in one city (let alone all those others), but it's islamophobia to say so ?

Strictly speaking, 'Islamophobia' means 'fear of Islam', and by extension, 'fear of Muslims', or in this case, 'fear of men of possibly Muslim origins'. If women are afraid to go out alone after these attacks, that seems to fit that stretched definition.

If I was a woman in a European city, I would be a bit wary of walking past a large group of men 'of north African appearance'. How about you ?

Joe

Hi George

Thanks for Der Spiegel article on Muslim male violence in Cologne.
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cologne-attacks-trigger-raw-debate-on-immigration-in-germany-a-1071175.html

Parts of the article comment:

"A lot happened on New Year's Eve in Cologne, much of it contradictory, much of it real, much of it imagined...much of it was horrifying. In its entirety, the events of Cologne on New Year's Eve and in the days that followed adhered to a script that many had feared would come true even before it actually did.

...Refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, foreigners, friendly or evil, new or long-time residents: It doesn't matter. It seems as though the time has come for a broad debate over Germany's future -- and Merkel's mantra "We can do it," is no longer enough to suppress it.

...Two months after the attacks in Paris, one can have one's doubts as to whether Cologne represents a "completely new dimension of violence," as has been repeated by both police officials and politicians. What is clear, however, is that the police were unprepared and that they failed. [watch out State Police and AFP]

[Merkel and soon Turnbull or DG ASIO?] too joined the legions of phrasemongers and, as has been her wont since last summer, did not have much to offer aside from her fundamental confidence. It is a political path that won't take her very far anymore.

...It took four days before an officer with the [German] federal police force put into writing what..really happened that night.

...What should be done? An attempt at complete honesty would be a good start. Germans are not children who need to be protected from the truth for well-intended reasons. And part of the truth is the fact that politicians like to talk about integration but have not yet given any indication that they understand the magnitude of the challenge facing them. Another part of the truth is this: German society is becoming increasingly divided."

Much more in this long article.

COMMENT

Watch out Mr Turnbull with the German-induced 1,000s of (mainly Muslim?) refugees being rushed into Australia riots and terrorism may colour your (and our) 2016.