BERLIN (AP) — Hundreds of anti-Islam demonstrators and leftwing counter protesters have taken to the streets ofCologne in response to a string of New Year’s Eve sexual assaults and robberies in the city blamed largely on foreigners.
Police said Saturday that some 1,700 protesters from the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement were kept apart from 1,300 counter demonstrators in simultaneous protests outside the city’s main train station.
Right-wing demonstrators hold a sign “Rapefugees not welcome – Stay away!” and a sign with a crossed out mosque as they march in Cologne, Germany Saturday Jan. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Juergen Schwarz)
Police said four people were taken into custody and the PEGIDA demonstration was shut down early after protesters threw firecrackers and bottles at some of the 1,700 police on hand. No injuries were immediately reported.
Earlier, hundreds of women’s rights activists gathered outside Cologne’s landmark cathedral to rally against the New Year’s Eve violence.
A right-wing demonstrator with a tattoo reading : ‘Proud and Free’ marches in Cologne, Germany Saturday Jan. 9, 2016. (AP Photo/Juergen Schwarz)
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Sex attacks by illegals on women on NY eve. In at least 6 cities in Germany, Austria, Switzerland. No limit on the number of additional illegals to come. Of the illegals from Syria, 80% are young male cowards too chicken to defend their own mothers and sisters from ISIS. Of the illegals who are not from Syria but pretending to be, they are from Afghanistan, Eritrea, Iraq, Iran, Bosnia, Serbia, Kosova. It’s going to be a horrible mess in Germany, Austria, Sweden, and the other countries who are under this delusion of illegals as a good. Over the next 2 months, the situation will be worse and worse, and some mass actions are going to begin happening.
Merkel is beginning to see she didn’t understand the extent of the displeasure this migration would cause
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/01/09/world/europe/ap-eu-germany-cologne-crimes.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Since basically she opened the door, and just let ever single illegal in, of course she does not understand. You cannot understand a process that you simply refuse to even monitor. If I was a young woman in Köln (misspelled as “Cologne” in non-German sites), Bielefeld, or some of the other cities in which these assaults have occurred, I would now be extremely nervous. The impact is to make the native Germans totally uncomfortable in their own towns. Anger is growing and will continue. A woman in Köln was doing a totally nude protest, saying that regardless of what persons wear, you are not allowed to molest them.
I guess the silly season is underway everywhere.
"A right-wing demonstrator with a tattoo reading : ‘Proud and Free’ marches in Cologne, "
‘Proud and Free’? I have no idea what that means.