The European Commission has declared the Cologne sex attacks on New Year’s Eve have nothing to do with Europe’s ongoing migrant crisis, describing such links as “false associations”. Internal minutes of a European Commission meeting held on January 13th illustrate the complacent attitude of senior European Union (EU) leaders to the Cologne sex attacks. They appear more concerned with limiting... 

Migrants in Germany stabbed a father who was out walking with his baby and then chased the pair into a freezing pond as rescuers were forced to revive the infant from the brink of death. The incident occurred in the city of Hamburg on Monday night. The 24-year-old father was walking near the Lohmühle Pond at around 10:30pm when he was confronted by two dark-haired men speaking a foreign language. The... 

Police in the German town of Kiel were told not to prosecute or arrest migrants for petty crimes, media have revealed. The instruction, which was filed weeks before the sexual harassment scandal in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, cited a lack of IDs among the migrants. The documents first emerged in Bild newspaper and local Kieler Nachrichten daily. According to the media, the official guidelines of... 

Evidence that municipal authorities in cities as diverse as Cologne, Philadelphia, and Reykjavik covered up violent acts by jihadists may indicate that there is an international agreement between some nations to cover up such acts. Police in Cologne, along with the administration of Mayor Henriette Reker, covered up the fact that the mass rapes and sexual assaults committed against German women on... 

In the wake of a series of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults in Germany, right-wing Dutch politician Geert Wilders on Monday called for all Muslim male refugees to be locked up in asylum centers, saying women needed to be protected. Speaking in a new video for his Freedom Party (PVV), Wilders condemned the attacks in Cologne, Germany, in which hundreds of women were groped and robbed by a mob... 

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s migration policy has brought into question the German leader’s political future. What if Angela Merkel steps down? Experts weigh the pros and cons of the potential move. Angela Merkel’s “open-door” refugee policy has already prompted fierce debate among the Chancellor’s political opponents and ordinary Germans; the violent massive sex... 

The proposal comes two weeks after hundreds of women were attacked by aggressive men of allegedly Arab and North African origin in a number of German cities. After the attacks on women in Cologne and a number of other German cities, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has called to consider the deployment of Bundeswehr forces within the country. “We will have to deal with the question... 

Chanting “Merkel out” and waving German flags, supporters of the patriotic PEGIDA movement vented their anger Saturday against migrants after a rash of sexual assaults in the western city of Cologne. Carrying banners and signs bearing slogans like “Rapefugees not welcome,” the far-right protesters took aim at Merkel, accusing her of allowing migrants to running amok in Germany through her... 

Germany cannot find any support in Europe for its stance on the refugee question: its partners are demonstratively distancing themselves from Berlin, a tendency that will become even more pronounced following the reprehensible events in the city of Cologne, according to Malte Lehming, an editor at Berlin’s Der Tagesspiegel daily. “Europe’s Schengen system is on its deathbed,” Lehming states... 

A new German police report has described the situation during the mass assaults on women in Cologne on NYE as “chaotic and shameful.” It outlined the highly inappropriate behavior of perpetrators, described as migrants, who demanded respect from police. Groups of men bombarded police with fireworks and pelted people with glass bottles while officers unsuccessfully attempted to prevent mass assaults... 

Stricter penalties for those who commit crimes while seeking refuge in Germany, as well as speeding up their deportation process, are being pushed by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party in the light of the New Year’s Eve attacks in Cologne. The Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party called for strengthening of the country’s laws for asylum-seekers during a party meeting in the German... 

German police have used water cannons to disperse PEGIDA demonstrators in Cologne. The anti-immigration movement were rallying against a rash of assaults on women, blamed on migrants in the city on New Year’s Eve. Over a thousand supporters of the far-right movement took part in the protest in the center of the western German city on Saturday. They chanted “expulsion,” while waving German flags... 

Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker recommended that German women should change their behavior and follow a special set of rules to avoid sexual harassment, German media reported. During an emergency meeting on Tuesday, she proposed a number of measures to prevent similar attacks in the future. In particular, the mayor referred to a code of conduct for young women and girls. In her opinion, women should... 

Several hundred people have rallied in Cologne in protest against heightened trouble stemming from the migrant community, and the authorities’ failure to intervene and prevent the dozens of sexual assaults which took place during wild New Year celebrations. Organized via social networks, hundreds of men and women demonstrated against the intolerable levels of abuse witnessed by women at the hands... 

The German authorities must do everything to prevent a repeat of the mass sexual assaults committed in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, the country’s justice minister, Heiko Maas, said, promising swift punishment for the perpetrators. “What happened at the Cologne main train station and other locations in Germany is unacceptable, it may not repeat itself and the offenders have to be punished,” Maas...