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Merkel under pressure as Cologne police detail assaults
Reuters ^ | January 11th, 2016 | By Noah Barkin and Michael Nienaber

Posted on 01/11/2016 9:50:31 PM PST by Mariner

German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced growing pressure to harden her line on refugees on Monday as the first extensive police report on New Year's Eve violence in Cologne documented rampant sexual assaults on women by gangs of young migrant men.

Cologne police said at least 11 foreigners, including Pakistanis, Guineans and Syrians, had been injured on Sunday evening in attacks by hooligans bent on revenge for the assaults in the western city.

Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere condemned those attacks and warned against a broader backlash against refugees following the events in Cologne, which have deepened scepticism towards Merkel's policy of welcoming migrants.

The right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party seized on the latest developments to attack the chancellor while members of her own conservative party warned that integrating the hundreds of thousands of migrants who arrived last year would fail if the influx were not stopped immediately.

"If the influx continues as it has, then integration can't work," said Carsten Linnemann, a lawmaker in Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU). "If we get another 800,000 or a million people arriving this year, then we won't be able to do this," he added, playing on Merkel's optimistic "we can do this" mantra.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Germany; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: angelamerkel; cologne; europeanunion; germany; hijrah; nato; pegida; scheisskopf; waronterror
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Merkel's party, feeling the heat, is turning on her.
1 posted on 01/11/2016 9:50:31 PM PST by Mariner
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That schweinhund needs to resign NOW.


2 posted on 01/11/2016 9:53:06 PM PST by jocon307
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The men defending the woman are hooligans, so what does that make the guys that assaulted the women?


3 posted on 01/11/2016 10:32:08 PM PST by Rusty0604
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The men defending the woman are hooligans, so what does that make the guys that assaulted the women?

Good potential candidates for Nazi membership?

4 posted on 01/11/2016 10:46:47 PM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker (...and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many... Daniel 8:25)
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To: Rusty0604

Potential Merkel voters?


5 posted on 01/11/2016 10:49:46 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Mariner

And the perfumed prissy sissy boy in the White House has invited a Syrian refugee to sit next to Michelle O at the State of the Disunion address this week... I thought, doesn’t he realize she could be beheaded if the Syrian turns out to be a Muzzie terrorist? Maybe that is his plan. He sure doesn’t seem to care about the future for his wife and daughters!!!! We have the dumbest world leaders today!


6 posted on 01/11/2016 10:51:26 PM PST by buffyt (Ted Cruz for president!)
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To: Rusty0604

Hooligan is a term which is used by state-run news media in Germany and shapes the mold of the story they want to tell.

If you have thugs in Frankfurt rioting and destroying cops cars in the interest of anti-banks....they can’t be hooligans.

If you have thugs in Stuttgart rioting and destroying city property and cop cars in the interest of anti-urbanization/anti-subway renovation....they can’t be hooligans.

If you have soccer enthusiasts who start fights after games....they must be hooligans.

If you have any right-wing guys who have a protest march....they must be hooligans.

After a while, you just start laughing at the feeble attempt by the state-run news media to control and develop public sentiment. In this case, seventy-five percent of German society has gotten huffed up and frustrated now over the refugee crisis. The Koln assaults changed the whole outlook.

I will note though....this 600 charges story that the cops put out and pumped up their chest over bringing the thugs to justice? It’s only flimsy charges....the judge will throw out the bulk of the charges, and for those who remain....they probably will be convicted but serve only two weeks in jail. Once the public figures this out (figure six months), it’ll be the last any of any positive Merkel trend in Germany.


7 posted on 01/11/2016 11:20:11 PM PST by pepsionice
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As Mark Steyn suggested, how stupid must one be to lead a party with Christian in its name and adopt such a policy?


8 posted on 01/11/2016 11:41:58 PM PST by JLS
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I swear the people in charge have turned into idiots all over the world with political correctness... they will do this for evil.. it’s hard to figure how their brain works.


9 posted on 01/12/2016 12:16:46 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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Good grief.

At least, try to acknowledge the truth, on this public forum.


10 posted on 01/12/2016 12:29:44 AM PST by RedHeeler
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The men defending the woman are hooligans, so what does that make the guys that assaulted the women?

Just poor defenseless little old members of the ROP. I have been told by western governments that is is a religion of peace so much, I almost believe it. NOT

11 posted on 01/12/2016 12:49:55 AM PST by Mark17 (Thank God I have Jesus, there's more wealth in my soul than acres of diamonds and mountains of gold)
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Merkel is an example of what goes wrong when one person sits at the top too long.


12 posted on 01/12/2016 1:39:23 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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I swear the people in charge have turned to idiots

Read up on Kashergi. He's the philosophical inspiration for the elitist beasts who seek to destroy western civilization as we know it.

Just a little reading about his ideas got me thinking. The people in charge probably aren't idiots. They're evil and they want a world they totally control.

13 posted on 01/12/2016 1:48:48 AM PST by grania
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To: Mariner


14 posted on 01/12/2016 4:25:31 AM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Mariner

15 posted on 01/12/2016 4:35:05 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Mariner

16 posted on 01/12/2016 4:36:04 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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“After alcohol and drug excesses came the excesses of violence, peaking with people who carried out fantasies of sexual power.”

I’m not so sure I’d call it a fantasy - especially if I were one of those victims and the police didn’t give a damn. Maybe they were fantasies in the ‘old country’, but Germany appears hell-bent to allow them to be reality.


17 posted on 01/12/2016 4:51:50 AM PST by BobL (Who cares? He's going to build a wall and stop this invasion.)
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To: Iron Munro

interesting picture....the body language of the US Muslim leader, says it all with the crossed arms in a protective stance......


18 posted on 01/12/2016 5:16:12 AM PST by B212
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They do ... and that makes them idiots for thinking they can do it and how they are doing it. The world is full of this evil.. mankind can be the cruelest of all creatures.


19 posted on 01/12/2016 5:42:30 AM PST by frnewsjunkie
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To: Mariner

Seeing her grab the German flag and throw it to the ground told me everything I needed to know about her. And with a disgusted look on her face, she hates Germany.


20 posted on 01/12/2016 7:06:28 AM PST by ABN 505 (Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong. ~Archbishop Fulton John)
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