I wondered what the response to the Cologne attacks by German feminists has been and discovered that women in Germany have been using the hashtag ausnahmslos.
ausnahmslos.org/
These women condemn the attacks on women on New Year's Eve and they demand that those that attack and rape women must not be protected. They call for action against sexual violence be and state this must be prioritised.
They also assert that sexual violence must not only be addressed if the offender is seen by society as 'other¨, eg. Muslim, Arab, black or North African. They point out that focusing on those seen as 'the other' and "non-German" is only helpful to the spread of the right wing and populism
They state that all victims of sexual violence should be taken seriously, regardess of ethnicity.
The women state that sexual violence must also become a political priority and point to statistics by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA), that more than half of all women have been sexually assaulted and a third sexualized and / or experienced physical violence and the police crime statistics, annually more than 7,300 displayed rape and sexual coercion in Germany OFF3, which are twenty everyday, the number of unreported cases being much higher.
It is interesting that these German are not focusing on one particular race or culture, but focusing on all forms of sexual violence become a priotity and I hope they are effective in bringing this to the attention of German political leaders and police chiefs.
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