Scuffles in Cologne as rival groups (far-right & anti-fascist) hold demonstrations over immigration

[pampango]

Scuffles have broken out between far-right activists and anti-fascist protesters in the German city of Cologne, with police attempting to keep them apart.

The right-wing groups have condemned the government’s welcoming of refugees after the city’s police chief told the media that people of Arab or North African origin were behind New Year’s Eve attacks.

Almost 100 women have reported being robbed, assaulted and sexually molested, but the government has warned against putting foreigners and refugees under what they call “blanket suspicion”.

As Angela Merkel expressed shock over the attacks, the Mayor of Cologne said there was no reason to believe the perpetrators were refugees.

http://www.euronews.com/2016/01/06/scuffles-in-cologne-as-rival-groups-hold-demonstrations-over-immigration/

[DetlefK]

1. Well, there are reports at least two of them were refugees and mocked the police.

One claimed to be a syrian refugee and told the cops that they aren't allowed to hurt him.

Another one demonstratively ripped his registration-papers in two in fron tof cops and said that they got nothing on him: He can get new ones tommorrow.




My Two Cents:
1. Germany needs a better registry for refugees. Every single refugee gets registered in a biometric database: facial features, finger-prints... If there's a problem, we know exactly who you are.

2. The german cops need bodycams.

3. When a refugee gets convicted of a crime and you can't send him back (because of the Geneva Conventions on Refugees), then put him in jail until the war or the dictatorship in his home-country are over and it's safe to return him. Or until a third country is willing to take him in.

[FrodosPet]

2. German Police Identify Suspects After Mass Sexual Assault by Up to 1,000 Men

https://news.vice.com/article/german-police-identify-suspects-after-mass-sexual-assault-by-up-to-1000-men

By VICE News and Reuters

January 6, 2016 | 11:45 am

German police have identified three suspects in connection with mass attacks on women at New Year celebrations in the city of Cologne, the interior minister of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia said on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, police announced that 90 women had been sexually molested, robbed, or threatened outside the city's central cathedral, a series of events they condemned as a "new dimension in crime."

Police chief Wolfgang Albers told reporters that assaults were committed by perpetrators from a group which contained as many as 1,000 men who appeared to be between 18 and 35 years old and mainly from "the Arab or North African region."

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Another woman identified as Katja, said: "When we came out of the station, we were very surprised by the group we met, which was made up only of foreign men… We walked through the group of men, there was a tunnel through them, we walked through… I was groped everywhere... Although we shouted and hit them, they men didn't stop. I was horrified and I think I was touched around 100 times over the 200 meters."

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