Syrian migrants arriving in Munich acknowledge the role of Chancellor Angela Merkel in inviting them into Germany.
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Germany, Migrants and the Big Lie
From the March 2016 Trumpet Print Edition »
Muslim migrants are flooding Germany with problems. German leaders want to cover it up; German citizens want different leaders
Germans are being lied to by their
government. By Angela Merkel, by their police force and even by their
media. For most of 2015, many suspected as much. Those suspicions were
confirmed in the most dramatic possible way in Cologne on New Year’s
Eve.
That night, a mob of around 1,000 migrants gathered outside
Cologne’s central train station and began molesting, robbing and even
raping passersby. As of January 14, 652 crimes were reported to Cologne
police from that evening. Of those, 331 included alleged sexual
offenses, including two rapes.
A leaked police report stated that “[w]omen literally had to run the
gauntlet through the mass of drunk men, in a way you can’t describe.”
One person talked about how he arrived at the station and saw “countless
weeping women.”
Cologne was the worst affected city, but not the only one. Over 100
crimes have been reported for the same evening in Hamburg. Women in
Frankfurt, Helsinki, Zurich and Salzburg suffered a similar fate, albeit
on a smaller scale.
The impacts of this night on Europe’s future could be just as big as the November 13 terrorist attack in Paris.
Cover-up
Those attacks alone would have been enough to confirm to Germans
that their government had been hiding the truth from them—or at least
looking at the mass migration to Germany with heavily tinted glasses.
But the authorities’ reaction after Cologne was even more damning.
Their first instinct was to cover up everything. The day after the
attacks, the Cologne police filed a report describing their city on New
Year’s Eve as having “a joyful, party atmosphere.”
“As in years past, we are looking back at a mostly peaceful New
Year’s celebration,” they wrote. “Reasons to intervene were mostly
physical assault and disturbance of the peace.”
There was nothing in the media either. The attacks occurred Thursday
night, but the next day and all weekend almost all the national news
media were silent.
The government, the police and the media were afraid of an
anti-migrant backlash, so they tried to cover up the mass sexual assault
of hundreds of women. zdf, a German public broadcaster, was forced to apologize for being so slow to cover the story.
Of course, something so big could not be kept secret. But even
toward the end of the next week, once the truth was out, government
officials still tried to cover up part of the story. They insisted that
there was no evidence that recent migrants or asylum seekers were
involved in the attacks—while leaked police reports and police officers’
statements to the media revealed the exact opposite.
That lie has also completely collapsed. “Those in the focus of
criminal police investigations are mostly people from North African
countries,” said the police later. “The majority of them are asylum
seekers and people who are in Germany illegally.”
Worst of all, the botched Cologne cover-up was just the latest in a
long string of cover-ups. There are plenty of examples, although prior
to the Cologne attacks you had to search hard to find them in the news
media.
A Pattern of Abuse
Tania Kambouri is a police officer in Germany and a bestselling
author. In an Oct. 2, 2015, radio interview, Kambouri discussed the
migrants and Germany’s deteriorating security situation.
“For weeks, months and years I have noticed that Muslims, mostly
young men, do not have even a minimum level of respect for the police,”
she said. “When we are out patrolling the streets, we are verbally
abused by young Muslims.
“I wish these problems were recognized and clearly addressed!
If necessary, laws need to be strengthened. It is also very important
that the … judges issue effective rulings. It cannot be that offenders
continue to fill the police files, hurt us physically, insult us,
whatever, and there are no consequences. Many cases are closed, or
offenders are released on probation .… Yes, what is happening in the
courts today is a joke. The growing disrespect, the increased violence
against police .… We are losing control of the streets.”
Until Cologne, Kambouri was all but a lone voice. Now she has been
dramatically proven right. The lack of respect for police that night is
well documented. Migrants attacked police and even sexually assaulted a
plainclothes female police officer—and got away with it!
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