Arī uzskatu, ka likumi būtu jāmaina. Ja bēglis izvairās dot pirkstu nospiedumus, tātad raustās un ir ko slēpt. Tam vajadzētu būt pirmajam solim ceļā uz mājām. Cilvēks, kurš bēg no kara, darīs visu, ko tam lūdz un pateiks paldies par drošu pajumti zem galvas. Pārējie cirka taisītāji te ir citu iemeslu vadīti.
What is particularly disturbing is that the attacks appear to have been organised. Around 1,000 young men arrived in large groups, seemingly with the specific intention of carrying out attacks on women.
Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker said the attacks were "monstrous". "We cannot allow this to become a lawless area," she said, insisting that visitors could not come to the city fearing attack.
German Justice Minister Heiko Maas tweeted that "we won't tolerate these abhorrent assaults on women - all those responsible must be brought to justice".
One man described how his partner and 15-year-old daughter were surrounded by an enormous crowd outside the station and he was unable to help. "The attackers grabbed her and my partner's breasts and groped them between their legs."
A British woman visiting Cologne said fireworks had been thrown at her group by men who spoke neither German nor English. "They were trying to hug us, kiss us. One man stole my friend's bag," she told the BBC. "Another tried to get us into his 'private taxi'. I've been in scary and even life-threatening situations and I've never experienced anything like that."
One migrant, Abdu Osman Kelifa, a Muslim from Eritrea, told the New York Times that he found it difficult to understand that a wife could accuse her husband of sexual assault.
“Men have weaknesses and when they see someone smiling it is difficult to control,” he added, explaining that in his homeland “if someone wants a lady he can just take her and he will not be punished.”
So why do even well educated people take such fabrications at face value? Rumors spread particularly easy when they seem to confirm stereotypes that already exist in society, says the Leipzig-based social psychologist Immo Fritsche. A part of the population obviously regards asylum seekers as being predisposed to crime and willing to exploit most people's good nature. Strategically placed gossip that reinforces this sentiment is particularly effective in times of uncertainty, according to the psychologist.
That some people's threshold for turning to violence can be lowered if they feel strengthened in their xenophobic stereotypes is one of Keilen's fears too. He has dealt with far-right extremism for nearly 25 years, but things haven't been as serious as they are at the moment since the early 1990s. "Things escalate thanks to the Internet," says Keilen. "And some people blindly take the stories for the truth. They radicalize themselves to such an extent that they are no longer receptive to rational arguments."
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Between 2013 and 2014, 34.5 percent of all individuals convicted of rape were immigrants or their descendants despite those groups only accounting for roughly 12 percent of Denmark’s total population.
Linda Hagen, who runs 34 asylum centres for the Norwegian refugee business Hero Norge, told The Local that the programme had been introduced after a string of sexual offences committed by refugees near one of its centres.
“We had some problems in Stavanger because some of the refugees had sexually violent episodes with Norwegian girls in the centre of the town,” she said. “So the police, the immigration department and Hero Norge launched a project to teach refugees about Norwegian behaviour.”
Hagen explained that men from sexually conservative countries often struggled to understand how to interpret the behaviour of young Scandinavian women.
“It’s difficult if you come from a country where women never go out,” she said. “When you see a girl with a short skirt dancing at a party late in the evening, what kind of message will it give you?”
The former police chief in the town of Stavanger, Henry Ove Berg, said he supports the courses because “people from some parts of the world have never seen a girl in a miniskirt, only in a burqa” and when they arrive in Norway “something happens in their heads.”
He added there was “a link but not a very clear link” between the town’s immigration community and a rise in rape cases. Only three of 20 men found guilty in those cases were not immigrants.
Hanne Kristin Rohde, former head of the violent crime department for Oslo Police, caused outrage in 2011 when she went public with data suggesting migrants commit a disproportionate number of rapes and blamed this on “cultural factors”.
“This was a big problem but it was difficult to talk about it,” she said, adding there is a “clear statistical connection” between rape and male migrants from countries where “women have no value of their own”.
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