What happened in Cologne (and other German cities) in New Year's Eve is the biggest warning we had about the dangers of Europe's current changes. Unlike the terrorists attacks that have shaken several european cities in the past, Cologne's events involved hundreds of men, in absolute impunity. But not only that, they also involved cover-up, and bizarre reactions from politicians.
Because not only the events that took place that night on those German cities were a warning, but even more, what has happened since then.
Just to refresh our memories, let's read how Wikipedia describes the "New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany": "During the 31 December 2015 New Year's Eve celebrations, widespread theft, alleged sexual assaults including groping, and at least two alleged instances of rape were reported across Germany, primarily within Cologne. There were also several incidents in Hamburg, several in Frankfurt, one in Stuttgart, theft in Bielefeld, and alleged sexual assault in Düsseldorf. The German Federal Criminal Police Office stated on January 9, the incidents were a phenomenon known in the Arab World as taharrush gamea.
The assaults were unreported by the national media for days and many outlets only started reporting on the incidents on January 5, after a wave of anger on social media made covering the story unavoidable."
So we have around 1,000 North Africans and Arab men in front of one of the most important monuments of Germany (Cologne's Cathedral), harassing women with complete impunity on one of the year's most popular festivities.
How the victims described what happened [BBC]:
"They grabbed our arms... pushed our clothes away, and tried to get between our legs or I don't know where. "They got everything we had in our pockets." She said German police needed to provide more protection for women and girls. "We are all really shocked that something like this could happen, especially at an event like New Year's Eve."
"All of a sudden these men around us began groping us," she said. "They touched our behinds and grabbed between our legs. They touched us everywhere. "So my girlfriend wanted to get out of the crowd. When I turned around one guy grabbed my bag and ripped it off my body." She said she felt in extreme danger, but there were no police officers to help. "I thought to myself that if we stay here in this crowd they could kill us, they could rape us and nobody would notice. I thought we simply had to accept it. "There was no one around us who helped or was in a position to help. All I wanted was to get out. "I was scared that I wouldn't leave this crowd alive. I was scared that if someone showed up with a knife I could be raped in the middle of the street."
I really think people have not comprenhended the importance of what happened: women being attacked with absolute impunity in New Year's Eve in one of the most popular touristic spots in Germany. This reminds me of those ghettos in Belgium were is said that the police just never enter... Only that this happened, as we said, in one of the most popular touristic spots in the whole Germany.
But, if this was not enough, other things happened after the attacks that are not as horrible, but as worrying, as the attacks themselves: "Police and media accused of cover-up to avoid stoking anti-immigrant feeling after witnesses say men who carried out attacks were of Arab appearance". [The Guardian] "German authorities accused of migrant attack cover up." [The Telegraph]
I always been obsessed with how the powers that be deal with information, and how they have manipulated in the past, and still manipulate our perception of events. Our perception of WW2, of the War of Kosovo, and of the conflict in Syria, are being modelled by TPTB and mass media constantly. It's not a coincidence that these events are hidden from the public, because one of the essential elements of democracy is information; if the cititzens go to vote without the whole (important) information and a deformed picture of reality, democracy is just a fiction as matrix.
But surprisingly, the Cologne attacks had the effect of un-covering similar attacks that had already taken place but hid from public knowledge: "As it turns out, the Cologne attacks were not an isolated incident. Once the story started making international headlines, reports began to trickle in from Austria, Finland, and Switzerland where women reported similar attacks perpetrated by apparent refugees.
But none of this would surprise police in Stockholm. According to Swedish media, “hordes” of young men harassed and groped young women at a youth festival and concert in central Stockholm’s Kungsträdgården last August.
Those attacks were reported to police who, according to Nyheter Idag, were willing to talk to prominent daily Dagens Nyheter. Unfortunately for the victims, the paper deliberately covered up the story in an effort to avoid triggering an anti-migrant backlash - or at least that’s what Nyheter Idag alleges. Here are some excerpts from the piece entitled “Exposing Major PC Cover-up in Sweden – Leading Daily Dagens Nyheter Refused to Write About Cologne-like Sex Crimes in Central Stockholm”." [Zero Hedge]
So it seems European policitians, police and media have been covering these kind of "events" to "avoid anti-migrant backlash". That's the official explanation. Truth is likely to be that the public knowledge of everything that happens around Islam would surely make their agenda ("EU should 'undermine national homogeneity' says UN migration chief") more complicated.
But if all that didn't seem scary enough, the "cherry of the pie" came with Cologne's Mayor, Henriette Reker, statements after New Year's Eve attacks: "“This means, they [women] 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”." [Breitbart]
So this, dear readers, is the beginning of European women's rights narrowing.
Update:
We are reading lately that the attacks were coordinated. Maybe politicians think that describing these events as a terrorist attacks will make them more isolated and less frightful for the public. I don't agree at all, but we will wait to see what they come up with.
Update:
Although finally it was admitted that mostly refugees had taken part in the attacks, in the beginning, that much was denied. Like if the possibility that the attacks were committed by previous migrants and not refugees was better... It is better for those, like Merkel, who have opened the doors of Europe to muslims, but not for the common citizens.
One way or the other, one truth stands: the rights of women in muslim societies, are worth nothing. One could argue "They are not muslims, they were drinking and partying", yet they come from Muslim countries, and Islam and women rights are just not compatible; just like Islam and democracy are not compatible.
More from Wikipedia on the Cologne attacks:
"On New Years Eve witnesses reported that firecrackers were thrown into a crowd from a group of people of around 500, later in the evening more than 1000, at the square in front of Cologne's Central Station. Following this event, alleged perpetrators exploited the confusion to rob and sexually assault persons in the area and within the station. According to witnesses the alleged attackers surrounded women in groups of 30–40. According to the Cologne police report on 2 January, the suspects mostly used sexual assault (including groping) to distract victims while they robbed them of items such as mobile phones and wallets. The Police indicated that the sizes of the groups ranged from 2 to 20 people.
While Cologne mayor Henriette Reker said in a press conference on January 5, there was "no evidence, that people who are residing in Cologne as refugees are amongst the perpetrators", police president Wolfgang Albers said: "the police has no knowledge about the offenders". To some including the German Minister of justice Heiko Maas, the assaults appeared to be coordinated, the perpetrators having arrived in large groups.
On January 7, several anonymous police officers from Cologne denied statements that the police did not know the nationality of the perpetrators; they told the press that "most of them" would have been freshly immigrated asylum seekers. Contradicting statements from Cologne police leaders, these officers said that the identities of many people, including arrestees, had been thoroughly checked, so that police knew which groups of people were involved. Around 70 people had been checked, and several brought to police stations or taken into custody. The majority of those in detention were Syrians. Also, they denied information that the sexual harassments were only incidental, saying that the truth was "exactly the opposite": Most Arab perpetrators sought primarily to commit sexual offenses, or in their words "sexual amusement". Arnold Plickert, North Rhine Westphalia's representative of German police union Gewerkschaft der Polizei confirmed that asylum seekers were "definitely" involved."
Other cities: "Similar events took place in Hamburg—specifically Reeperbahn, St. Pauli—, where 53 women reported being sexually assaulted or robbed. By January 7 the number of complaints to the police in Hamburg increased to 70, by January 8 to 108, by January 12 to 153.
Crime was also reported in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt (40 complaints), as well as one crime in Stuttgart. In Düsseldorf 41 complaints of sexual assaults and theft were made to the police, after 15 were reported earlier. In Bielefeld several young women were reported to be robbed by men of North African origin in and around a discotheque.
In addition, similar assaults in Austria, Finland, Switzerland, and Sweden were reported."
About what happened in Berlin: "This was Apparently Berlin New Year's Eve. Where they got the Guns is anyone's guess but there was reports of 2 incidents of people shot by stray bullets, at least one death of a girl. A film crew from TV Channel Speigil TV were caught up in filming the incident. They released their video on 3/1/2016. 3rd of January 2016."
Because not only the events that took place that night on those German cities were a warning, but even more, what has happened since then.
Just to refresh our memories, let's read how Wikipedia describes the "New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany": "During the 31 December 2015 New Year's Eve celebrations, widespread theft, alleged sexual assaults including groping, and at least two alleged instances of rape were reported across Germany, primarily within Cologne. There were also several incidents in Hamburg, several in Frankfurt, one in Stuttgart, theft in Bielefeld, and alleged sexual assault in Düsseldorf. The German Federal Criminal Police Office stated on January 9, the incidents were a phenomenon known in the Arab World as taharrush gamea.
The assaults were unreported by the national media for days and many outlets only started reporting on the incidents on January 5, after a wave of anger on social media made covering the story unavoidable."
So we have around 1,000 North Africans and Arab men in front of one of the most important monuments of Germany (Cologne's Cathedral), harassing women with complete impunity on one of the year's most popular festivities.
How the victims described what happened [BBC]:
"They grabbed our arms... pushed our clothes away, and tried to get between our legs or I don't know where. "They got everything we had in our pockets." She said German police needed to provide more protection for women and girls. "We are all really shocked that something like this could happen, especially at an event like New Year's Eve."
"All of a sudden these men around us began groping us," she said. "They touched our behinds and grabbed between our legs. They touched us everywhere. "So my girlfriend wanted to get out of the crowd. When I turned around one guy grabbed my bag and ripped it off my body." She said she felt in extreme danger, but there were no police officers to help. "I thought to myself that if we stay here in this crowd they could kill us, they could rape us and nobody would notice. I thought we simply had to accept it. "There was no one around us who helped or was in a position to help. All I wanted was to get out. "I was scared that I wouldn't leave this crowd alive. I was scared that if someone showed up with a knife I could be raped in the middle of the street."
I really think people have not comprenhended the importance of what happened: women being attacked with absolute impunity in New Year's Eve in one of the most popular touristic spots in Germany. This reminds me of those ghettos in Belgium were is said that the police just never enter... Only that this happened, as we said, in one of the most popular touristic spots in the whole Germany.
But, if this was not enough, other things happened after the attacks that are not as horrible, but as worrying, as the attacks themselves: "Police and media accused of cover-up to avoid stoking anti-immigrant feeling after witnesses say men who carried out attacks were of Arab appearance". [The Guardian] "German authorities accused of migrant attack cover up." [The Telegraph]
I always been obsessed with how the powers that be deal with information, and how they have manipulated in the past, and still manipulate our perception of events. Our perception of WW2, of the War of Kosovo, and of the conflict in Syria, are being modelled by TPTB and mass media constantly. It's not a coincidence that these events are hidden from the public, because one of the essential elements of democracy is information; if the cititzens go to vote without the whole (important) information and a deformed picture of reality, democracy is just a fiction as matrix.
But surprisingly, the Cologne attacks had the effect of un-covering similar attacks that had already taken place but hid from public knowledge: "As it turns out, the Cologne attacks were not an isolated incident. Once the story started making international headlines, reports began to trickle in from Austria, Finland, and Switzerland where women reported similar attacks perpetrated by apparent refugees.
But none of this would surprise police in Stockholm. According to Swedish media, “hordes” of young men harassed and groped young women at a youth festival and concert in central Stockholm’s Kungsträdgården last August.
Those attacks were reported to police who, according to Nyheter Idag, were willing to talk to prominent daily Dagens Nyheter. Unfortunately for the victims, the paper deliberately covered up the story in an effort to avoid triggering an anti-migrant backlash - or at least that’s what Nyheter Idag alleges. Here are some excerpts from the piece entitled “Exposing Major PC Cover-up in Sweden – Leading Daily Dagens Nyheter Refused to Write About Cologne-like Sex Crimes in Central Stockholm”." [Zero Hedge]
So it seems European policitians, police and media have been covering these kind of "events" to "avoid anti-migrant backlash". That's the official explanation. Truth is likely to be that the public knowledge of everything that happens around Islam would surely make their agenda ("EU should 'undermine national homogeneity' says UN migration chief") more complicated.
But if all that didn't seem scary enough, the "cherry of the pie" came with Cologne's Mayor, Henriette Reker, statements after New Year's Eve attacks: "“This means, they [women] 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”." [Breitbart]
So this, dear readers, is the beginning of European women's rights narrowing.
Update:
We are reading lately that the attacks were coordinated. Maybe politicians think that describing these events as a terrorist attacks will make them more isolated and less frightful for the public. I don't agree at all, but we will wait to see what they come up with.
Update:
Although finally it was admitted that mostly refugees had taken part in the attacks, in the beginning, that much was denied. Like if the possibility that the attacks were committed by previous migrants and not refugees was better... It is better for those, like Merkel, who have opened the doors of Europe to muslims, but not for the common citizens.
One way or the other, one truth stands: the rights of women in muslim societies, are worth nothing. One could argue "They are not muslims, they were drinking and partying", yet they come from Muslim countries, and Islam and women rights are just not compatible; just like Islam and democracy are not compatible.
More from Wikipedia on the Cologne attacks:
"On New Years Eve witnesses reported that firecrackers were thrown into a crowd from a group of people of around 500, later in the evening more than 1000, at the square in front of Cologne's Central Station. Following this event, alleged perpetrators exploited the confusion to rob and sexually assault persons in the area and within the station. According to witnesses the alleged attackers surrounded women in groups of 30–40. According to the Cologne police report on 2 January, the suspects mostly used sexual assault (including groping) to distract victims while they robbed them of items such as mobile phones and wallets. The Police indicated that the sizes of the groups ranged from 2 to 20 people.
While Cologne mayor Henriette Reker said in a press conference on January 5, there was "no evidence, that people who are residing in Cologne as refugees are amongst the perpetrators", police president Wolfgang Albers said: "the police has no knowledge about the offenders". To some including the German Minister of justice Heiko Maas, the assaults appeared to be coordinated, the perpetrators having arrived in large groups.
On January 7, several anonymous police officers from Cologne denied statements that the police did not know the nationality of the perpetrators; they told the press that "most of them" would have been freshly immigrated asylum seekers. Contradicting statements from Cologne police leaders, these officers said that the identities of many people, including arrestees, had been thoroughly checked, so that police knew which groups of people were involved. Around 70 people had been checked, and several brought to police stations or taken into custody. The majority of those in detention were Syrians. Also, they denied information that the sexual harassments were only incidental, saying that the truth was "exactly the opposite": Most Arab perpetrators sought primarily to commit sexual offenses, or in their words "sexual amusement". Arnold Plickert, North Rhine Westphalia's representative of German police union Gewerkschaft der Polizei confirmed that asylum seekers were "definitely" involved."
Other cities: "Similar events took place in Hamburg—specifically Reeperbahn, St. Pauli—, where 53 women reported being sexually assaulted or robbed. By January 7 the number of complaints to the police in Hamburg increased to 70, by January 8 to 108, by January 12 to 153.
Crime was also reported in Düsseldorf and Frankfurt (40 complaints), as well as one crime in Stuttgart. In Düsseldorf 41 complaints of sexual assaults and theft were made to the police, after 15 were reported earlier. In Bielefeld several young women were reported to be robbed by men of North African origin in and around a discotheque.
In addition, similar assaults in Austria, Finland, Switzerland, and Sweden were reported."
About what happened in Berlin: "This was Apparently Berlin New Year's Eve. Where they got the Guns is anyone's guess but there was reports of 2 incidents of people shot by stray bullets, at least one death of a girl. A film crew from TV Channel Speigil TV were caught up in filming the incident. They released their video on 3/1/2016. 3rd of January 2016."
