More and more news is pouring out of Germany on the
coordinated violence that Muslims perpetrated on New Year’s Eve, as the scale
of what unfolded slowly comes to light. (For prior coverage see here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
here,
and here.)
The number
of cases that have been reported in Cologne has passed 500 and is climbing by
the hour. Nearly half of the reports are for sexual assault. The
police have confirmed the focus of their investigation is on people from North
African countries and that the majority are “asylum seekers” and people who are
in Germany illegally.
Information continues to emerge regarding the coordination
of these attacks that brought colonizers from outside Germany to partake in the
violence. Jihad Watch, reporting on an AFP article, writes:
Germany's Justice Minister Heiko Maas said Sunday that the
shocking spate of sexual assaults during New Year festivities in Cologne was
organised.
“For such a horde of people
to meet and commit such crimes, it has to have been planned somehow,” he told
Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
“No one can tell me that this
was not coordinated or planned. The suspicion is that a specific date and an
expected crowd was picked,” he said, adding that if confirmed, that would “take
on a new dimension”.
Quoting confidential police
reports, Bild am Sonntag said some North Africans had sent out calls using
social networks for people to gather in Cologne on New Year's Eve.
Young men not only from Cologne, but as far as France and
Belgium responded to the call to travel to the western German city, the
newspaper said.
Meanwhile, the number of reports from other cities in
Germany where there were attacks also continues to climb. For example, as
of this writing, there are nearly 133 reports from Hamburg.
Another city that saw violence on a mass scale was Berlin,
which was like a war zone. This video shows
explosives going off, hordes of Muslim men shooting guns in all directions, the
air thick with smoke, deafening noise, sirens cutting through the din, and
German citizens darting through the chaos, trying to make their way to safety.
