German police arrest 211 after far-right riot in Leipzig.

[redgreenandblue]

More than 200 rightwing rioters have been arrested after going on an anti-immigrant rampage around the eastern city of Leipzig, erecting barricades and setting a building on fire.

The riot comes in a highly charged atmosphere after a series of sexual assaults on women by gangs of young migrant men on New Year’s Eve in Cologne and other towns, which hardened German public opinion towards Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door refugee policy. Sporadic attacks on women attributed to migrants were also reported in Austria.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/12/german-police-arrest-211-after-far-right-riot-in-leipzig

But in contrast to the attacks in Cologne, this won't lead to "Western culture" being collectively blamed.

[Scootaloo]

1. "this won't lead to "Western culture" being collectively blamed."

well, that's one of the advantages of writing the rules. you can write yourself as being above them.

[pampango]

2. "They don’t all deserve to be tarred with the same brush as these foreign criminals” ...

Maas said the proposed law was aimed principally at “victim protection”, adding that it would also serve to protect the “vast majority” of refugees. “They don’t all deserve to be tarred with the same brush as these foreign criminals,” Social Democrat justice minister, Heiko Maas said.

The police described the Leipzig rioters as mostly football hooligans who had broken away from a march through Leipzig by 2,000 members of Legida, a local branch of the anti-Muslim movement Pegida, demanding that Merkel leave office. The breakaway group carried placards calling for Leipzig to “stay white”. They stormed through a southern district of the city, setting up barricades, smashing windows, letting off fireworks, and setting part of a building on fire.

“The 211 people were to a not insignificant degree already on record as being rightwing sympathisers and/or members of violent sporting groups,” the police said, adding that the riot had been stopped quickly.

Officers put the rightwingers on a bus which was then attacked by leftwing counter-demonstrators. Police also said groups linked to Cologne’s extremist hooligan scene had used social media to assemble in the inner city Sunday evening, and launched a spate of attacks against Pakistani, Syrian and African men.

Young RW ("keep Leipzig white&quot men rioting to protest to protest the actions of rioting young men (OTHERS). They sound like the kind of vigilantes that the American RW can support.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. That's a love-in compared to what would happen

in the U.S. if something similar occurred here. The hooligans would be armed, and there would be deaths. If we take in refugees here, they need to be separated from the general population, at least for a while.

[Dems to Win]

4. Funny how the police can arrest skinhead gangs, but not rape gangs

211 arrests!

But the police just watched hundreds of women be sexually assaulted in the train station and town square on NYE. No calling for reinforcements, no arresting the estimated thousand migrant men engaged in sexual assault.

Whose culture shall we blame for the utterly fucked up priorities of the police?

[Lizzie Poppet]

5. Nor will the press be complicit in covering it up.

Thank God the rapists' fee fees were protected!

[redgreenandblue]

6. Probably because the uniforms make them easy to spot. nt

[smirkymonkey]

8. Yeah, they really have their priorities straight, don't they?

Unreal.

[hifiguy]

9. Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Merkel has opened a Pandora's box and it is going to blow up in her face.

[branford]

7. I'm glad the German police made these arrests.

Laws concerning public order and safety should be enforced, and law enforcement has proven that they are obviously capable of mass arrests and vigilant law enforcement against unruly mobs when they so desire. I recall from an earlier story that they even recently used water cannon on disruptive right-wing protesters.

However, all stories like this do is emphasize is that the police chose to do next to nothing during the attacks in Cologne and elsewhere. The police are willing to act strongly against German citizens, and go as far as ignore and cover-up far more serious crimes by groups favored by Government. In Cologne, they detained only a handful of people that they later released, did not report the activities to the public, and even now have only arrested a few individuals and admitted that actual prosecutions, no less convictions, are near impossible.

I'm liberal and had a good deal of respect for Merkel, but if I was a German citizen, those center and right political groups would start looking better and better by the minute.