CHAPTER 29

Assault at the Cathedral

Egypt News, January 2016

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On New Year’s Eve, there were mass attacks on women in Cologne, ­Germany. More than a thousand young men, many of them with an ­apparent migration background, congregated next to the famous cathedral of Cologne where they assaulted, groped, and even raped women passing by. Local police, far outnumbered, did not intervene in the mayhem. In the days to follow, police, press, and government tried to downplay the disaster, in order to avoid controversy about migrants, of which Germany admitted more than one million in 2015, with many more to come.

Since then, statements by police who had ...

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