Police report shows their side of Cologne assaults

[FrodosPet]

http://www.thelocal.de/20160107/police-report-shows-real-face-of-cologne-assaults

Updated: 07 Jan 2016 11:08 GMT+01:00

A New Year's Eve police report from Cologne showing the full extent of the sexual assaults against women in and around the city's main train station appeared in German media on Thursday, causing fresh waves of consternation.

"We were already informed of the conditions in and around the station as we were arriving at our positions by emotional members of the public with crying and shocked children," a high-ranking police officer wrote in a document seen by Spiegel Online and tabloid Bild.

"On the square outside were several thousand mostly male people of a migrant background who were firing all kinds of fireworks and throwing bottles into the crowd at random."

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The report also notes that many of the perpetrators were mocking police throughout the night and saying they knew they would face no consequences for their actions.

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[sufrommich]

1. Why would they think they wouldn't face consequences

for their actions?

[FrodosPet]

2. That is a good question

I hope there are many opportunities to ask them when they are arrested.

[FrodosPet]

4. Cologne Assaults: Police Report Outlines 'Chaotic and Shameful' New Year's Eve

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cologne-attacks-on-new-years-produced-chaos-say-police-a-1070894.html

Law enforcement officials lost control of the situation in Cologne on New Year's Eve, according to an internal report by Germany's national police, the Bundespolizei, obtained by DER SPIEGEL. The author of the report, dated Jan. 4, is a senior official. He writes: "Women, accompanied or not, literally ran a 'gauntlet' through masses of heavily intoxicated men that words cannot describe." The horde in front of and inside the train station was unmoved by the presence of police.

According to the report, officers encountered many distraught, crying, frightened pedestrians, particularly women and girls. They reported "fights, thefts, sexual assaults against women, etc." Groups of male migrants were repeatedly named as perpetrators.

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A man is quoted as saying: "I'm a Syrian! You have to treat me kindly! Mrs. Merkel invited me."

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People reportedly demonstratively tore up residence permits in front of the police, grinned and said: "You can't touch me. I'll just go back tomorrow and get a new one." The report did not, however, confirm the authenticity of the documents.

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[leftynyc]

3. Germany truly fucked up here

In trying to make up for the nazi era, they swung too far the other way and have seemingly done little or no investigating about who they were letting into their country. The backlash is going to be ugly.

[sharp_stick]

5. They needed a lot more cops

and they had to have a way to separate the group of assailants from the rest. I think some lessons in crowd control and response are needed and quickly, this was really really bad.

[TubbersUK]

6. Horrendous n/t