Cologne Police: Roving Packs Sexually Assaulted Dozens on New Year's Eve

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184. It differs widely

In tourist areas of Tunesia or Algeria, you might think you were on the Left Bank of Paris. Out in the country, you might think you had somehow plunged into the wrong side of the Crusades.

Also, there ARE organized gangs (not of just Arabs--Eastern Europeans are equally to be feared), and in the refugee camps they have a lot of easy pickings. In Germany, we suffer from organized gangs of profession burglars. They come from Serbia, Lithuania, Albania, etc. Many are ex-military or police, well-trained and poorly paid. Offered the opportunity to ply their skills for a night, be done by dawn and home (by car) for breakfast the following day and getting cash equal to two months' wages for the night of work--who wouldn't? Take a thousand bored guys shivering and bored, offer them 500 euros for a night's work, and five or ten of them will take the risk, especially in a country where law enforcement is still reticent to get tough for fear of being stigmatized as Nazis due to what their grandparents did 75 or 80 years ago.

What Germany's politicians refuse to see is that by not treating newcomers equally under the law, they fuel very nasty right wing extremists who, under normal circumstances, wouldn't get a vote in any election in the country.