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Germany had a massive amount of sexual assaults perpetrated over NYE last year, mainly from Middle Eastern immigrants/refugees. Things like this tend to leave
by pfarnsworth 10y ago
Germany had a massive amount of sexual assaults perpetrated over NYE last year, mainly from Middle Eastern immigrants/refugees. Things like this tend to leave lasting bad impressions on refugees in general, regardless of how true it is, and look at how that issue blew up in Merkel's face since then.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/10/leaked-document-says-2000-men-allegedly-assaulted-1200-german-women-on-new-years-eve https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/10...
- jonathankoren 10y agoPerception and reality are two different things, and only the former is relevant to politics.
- mkesper 10y agoThe offenders were mostly from northern Africa (so not from Syria, where most immigrants in 2015 came from). That Washington Post article is clearly biased. Better read the source article: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/uebergriffe-in-koeln-frauen-wurden-opfer-von-silvester-gewalt-1.3072064 http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/uebergriffe-in-koeln-frau...