You can’t touch us, say migrant gangs
A LEAKED police report has revealed how gangs of men who sexually assaulted more than 100 women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve blocked officers from getting to victims.
It is claimed suspects boasted to police that, as migrants, they were untouchable.
As women called for help, one man told the officers trying to reach them: ‘I’m a Syrian! You have to treat me kindly! Mrs Merkel invited me.’
The report describes ‘chaotic and shameful’ scenes by the city’s railway station as the men, believed to be Arabs or North Africans, targeted around 120 women, including two who reported being raped.
It also emerged that women have reported similar attacks on the same night in four other German cities and in Austria.
Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday that Germany must now have a ‘fundamental’ debate about how to integrate newcomers. Many people have blamed her for encouraging migrants to come to Europe by announcing in August that she would give asylum to all Syrians.
German justice minister Heiko Maas said yesterday that if asylum seekers are found to have taken part in sex attacks, ‘deportations would certainly be conceivable’.
The law allows for people to be deported during asylum proceedings if they are sentenced to a year or more in prison.
Cologne police received 121 criminal complaints of sexual assault and robbery during the New Year’s Eve festivities.
In the internal police report about the attacks, a senior official in Germany’s national police wrote that ‘women, accompanied or not, literally ran a “gauntlet” through masses of heavily intoxicated men’. The file, leaked to German newspapers Der Spiegel and Bild, reveals officers lost control and were unable to stop the perpetrators as ‘there were simply too many [attacks] at the same time’.
Groups of men formed tight clusters, to prevent police pushing their way through to help victims, the report said.
Suspects tore up their migrant residence permits in front of police while grinning and boasting: ‘You can’t touch me. I’ll just go back tomorrow and get a new one.’
Officers were ‘bombarded with fireworks and pelted with glass bottles’.
The railway station was turned into an ‘open toilet’ by the drunken mob with faeces and vomit seen everywhere.
The report writer concluded: ‘ The very high number of migrants was striking. The officers met a level of disrespect I have not seen in 29 years of service.’
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