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In reply to the discussion: Mayor of Cologne says women should have code of conduct to prevent future assault [View all]anigbrowl
(13,889 posts)She's not addressing a gang of rapists, but the general public. Don't you think that if she changed tack and denounced newly-arrived immigrants for bringing this problem to Germany with them, don't you think that a lot of innocent people might end up being attacked for the misbehavior of a relative few? Ultimately it is the job of the police to identify and arrest as many perpetrators of assault as possible.
I say 'relative few' because I very much doubt that men engaging in organized sexual assault make up the majority of immigrants in Cologne, a fairly large city, or even a large minority. Also, I noticed that some reports on this said '1000 men' in the headline, but elsewhere in the article described it as a group of 500. It certainly sounds like a large group of semi-organized sexual abusers, but as you know the media is also prone to exaggeration and sensationalism - the other day we were told about 300 armed men taking over a federal building in Oregon, only for that number to be revised to a few dozen later. It is worth bearing in mind that Nazi propaganda frequently leveled allegations of organized sex abuse of German maidens against Jews back in the 1930s; would-be culture warriors have every incentive to inflate and sensationalize such allegations today too. So I am a little skeptical about estimates of the crowd size until the police engage in some closer investigation.