Cologne: Up to 1,000 men of Arab and North African origin sexually assault women

[Middle-aged Europe]

It does indeed sound too fantastical but the police, the Mayor of Cologne as well as members of te NRW government have all confirmed this.

They didn't.

There is confirmation of about 40 perpetrators, not 1,000.

Not that this makes it much better, but the title of this thread is wrong and should be changed accordingly.

[Middle-aged Europe]

The silence on the topic by German feminists/leftists is deafeaning.

There's no silence from German feminists/leftists I am aware of. In fact, I'm reading not much else at the moment. But you're probably friends with the wrong people in Facebook then. Something you shouldn't blame leftists for IMO.


So, for your information, here are some links on the topic:

https://www.gruene.de/themen/frauenpolitik/2016/koeln-gruene-fordern-aufklaerung-und-bestrafung-der-taeter.html

https://gruene-nrw.de/presse/uebergriffe-in-koeln-sexuelle-gewalt-ist-eingriff-in-grundrechte/

https://www.facebook.com/GoeringEckardt/posts/10153298411955592

http://www.linksfraktion.de/pressemitteilungen/es-darf-keine-angstraeume-unseren-staedten-gemeinden-geben/?rss

https://www.facebook.com/KatjaKipping/posts/1077847905580535?fref=nf

[Middle-aged Europe]

They, along with the mainstream media, stayed quiet on this topic for 3 whole days hoping it would blow over because the perpetrators weren't white cisprivileged men.

That's a slanderous assumption which comes awfully close to being a conspiracy theory.

The fact is that this wasn't widespread knowledge to politicians until yesterday... even the Cologne Police seems to have been unaware of and suprised by it until the media started to report on it. And when it was first reported it was blown out of proportions by the media ("1,000 men" and so).