I believe this incident was a premeditated provocative attack, intended to intimidate and threaten German females in public space.
It takes organisation to get hundreds of men gathered in one place. It takes some element of prior agreement between those men to act in this manner.
There is a great danger, in my view, with seeing this as a cultural or religious issue because it plays into mistaken prejudices about Middle Eastern and Muslim culture -- and results in an explanatory narrative that is false and, strangely, provides an excuse for behaviour that is quite obviously something else entirely.
I remember Syria before the war. It was very much like Lebanon in many ways. The idea that you were risking sexual assault by stepping out onto the street without wearing a headscarf and without a male companion was ludicrous. Crikey, I've accidentally walked through Hezbollah neighbourhoods in Beirut wearing a short sundress and received nothing but kindly smiles from old ladies. But I doubt many of these perpetrators were Syrian anyway.
It needs to be stated firmly that genuine refugees and genuine economic migrants who wish to build a life in a new country do not behave like this. Did any of the souls that came to Britain on the Empire Windrush engage in a mass sexual assault of English women? No. Did any of the Ugandan Asians that came to Britain in the 70s behave like this? No. Did any of the first generation Pakistani Muslim migrants to Britain commit mass sexual assault in one night? No.
This was an attack against European values and European women. And the circumstances that allowed it to occur have been entirely facilitated by idiotic politicians and media commentators who are either naive to the extent of being buffoons or are pursuing an agenda that can only end in war.
They've lied about migration statistics again and again. Hardly any of this summer's migrants were Syrians, and the overwhelming majority of the migrants were young men. Women and children were few and far between.
We've had to sit quiet about the problems with weakening borders for years, watching while criminal gangs trafficked young women for sexual slavery across Europe. I worked in a Southern European country where it was known Eastern European women had been trafficked and imprisoned in brothels in the town by criminal gangs. One even jumped out of a window and killed herself. All of it was created by poor border control within the EU and poor border control between the EU and third party states.
And what did the authorities do about it? Fuck all. It was a back-handers, and a nod and a wink. The only institutions to do anything to support and give a voice to these women was the fucking church.
I have just had enough. I am now angry enough to start kicking off. What is the point of lofty abstract goals like "equality", "tolerance", "diversity" and "freedom of movement" when you can't even get on a fucking train before midnight without running a gauntlet of potential rapists?
Incidentally, the mayor of Cologne is the woman who was recently stabbed by a German national, with no previous record, that was angry about immigration policy.
I tell you: this shit is going to blow soon. And when it does, all hell is going to break loose.