I have linked to an article in the Independent - a fairly reliable newspaper featuring reporting by Stacey Dooley who is a thoughtful and feminist tv journalist.
There have been a lot of groping incidents in Germany and some of the women also had their bags taken. My recollection was that there were also a smaller number of more serious sexual assaults at a Swedish musical festival.
Reaction here in the press has ranged from :
Right wing press reporting it with horror.
Left wing press reporting it but also pointing out that right wing press hasn't covered very widespread rapes and forced trafficking into prostitution of refugee women and children.
Left wing press has also asked why right wing press is focussing on the brown on white German and Swedish attacks when white on white and brown on brown attacks aren't reported so extensively (well not unless famous footballers are involved).
My own view are that the incidents did happen and even if some papers have blown it up , the incidents are still serious . Realistically, there are over 1 million refugees in Germany and some are going to be rapists and thieves. But it's also true that very large numbers of refugees are being raped and this gets very little coverage in the tabloid press.
Amnesty International have said that very large numbers of refugees are being raped in the camps and by smugglers -report here if you're feeling strong .
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Date: 2017-02-08 05:19 pm (UTC)http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/cologne-attacks-what-happened-after-1000-women-were-sexually-assaulted-a6867071.html
There have been a lot of groping incidents in Germany and some of the women also had their bags taken. My recollection was that there were also a smaller number of more serious sexual assaults at a Swedish musical festival.
Reaction here in the press has ranged from :
Right wing press reporting it with horror.
Left wing press reporting it but also pointing out that right wing press hasn't covered very widespread rapes and forced trafficking into prostitution of refugee women and children.
Left wing press has also asked why right wing press is focussing on the brown on white German and Swedish attacks when white on white and brown on brown attacks aren't reported so extensively (well not unless famous footballers are involved).
My own view are that the incidents did happen and even if some papers have blown it up , the incidents are still serious . Realistically, there are over 1 million refugees
in Germany and some are going to be rapists and thieves. But it's also true that very large numbers of refugees are being raped and this gets very little coverage in the tabloid press.
Amnesty International have said that very large numbers of refugees are being raped in the camps and by smugglers -report here if you're feeling strong .
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2016/07/refugees-and-migrants-fleeing-sexual-violence-abuse-and-exploitation-in-libya/