Mass sexual assaults on New Year’s Eve in Cologne add fuel to migration hostility (Updated)

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“'Arab or North African” appearance of organized groups stokes politics of migration and immigration."

"This story is the sum of the worst fears about the migrant crisis, and is sure to reverberate widely as more European countries seek to impose border controls.

"Germany’s Deutsche Welle reports, String of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults outrages Cologne:

Police in the western German city of Cologne responded on Monday to outrage over a string of sexual crimes over New Year’s Eve. According to police, the series of assaults in one of the city’s busiest thoroughfares represented a “completely new dimension of crime.”

Some 90 criminal complaints, including one allegation of rape, have been brought to the Cologne police department after women said they were molested by a crowd of men who had gathered in the city’s famous square between its central train station and towering Gothic cathedral. Authorities expect more victims to come forward in the next few days.

City police chief Wolfgang Albers said the crowd was composed of up to 1,000 heavily intoxicated men who gave the appearance of being “Arab or North African” in background.

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 "When I first heard of this incident, I immediately thought of the repeated organized assaults on women in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian Arab Spring protests in 2011, including of Lara Logan."

UPDATE: Mayor of Cologne blames women for being raped   . . . "Guidelines for preparation. What’s it going to be called? “How to prepare for rape jihad”?

"Stupid Europeans have invited the enemy into their midst and now find themselves needing guidelines for how to survive among barbarians." . . .