The German population is fuming after 118 German women reported being assaulted by gangs of Muslim immigrants on New Year’s Eve in Cologne but authorities and the press covered it up and even blamed victims for the attacks.

Breitbart is reporting on the growing outrage in Germany after more than 100 women reported being sexually assaulted in public places in Cologne and other German cities during New Year’s Eve celebrations. Even large groups of girls were not safe from the roaming mobs who would encircle them, tear at their clothing and grope them.

One victim, an 18 year-old German woman named Michelle, said she was walking with 11 other friends from the train station to the fireworks near the Rhine when they were suddenly surrounded by 20 to 30 men who tried to molest them in spite of their heavy winter clothing. The girls screamed and protested but the men didn’t seem to understand German.

“They were all foreigners,” Michelle said.

When they finally escaped the melee, they realized their phones and purses had all been stolen. Even worse, they could not find a police officer to report the incident.

Another 18 year-old victim named Annika told the German newspaper Bild that she was also assaulted that night. “It was scary. Mainly because nobody helped. I feel so dirty. So used . . . . They all looked foreign. They managed to separate us in the crowd and got close to us… we tried to fight off their hands…. everywhere I looked I saw girls crying and being comforted.”

Their purses had also been rifled. This group was able to find a policeman but he wasn’t much help and simply told her to go to a police station to make a report.

Initially ignored by the politically correct German press, public outrage grew after the stories began to emerge on social media. Local police were eventually forced to hold a press conference to deal with the avalanche of complaints about their covering up of the crimes and negligence during the attacks.

Adding insult to injury, Cologne’s mayor Henriette Reker, who nearly died after being stabbed by an anti-immigrant protestor before her election this fall, seemed to blame the victims when she responded by advising women to be better prepared to deal with these attacks.

“The women and young girls have to be more protected in the future so these things don’t happen again,” she said.

When asked how women should protect themselves, she suggested they keep “a certain distance of more than an arm’s length from unknown men.”

Later, while appearing on a German television show, she said, “Women would also be smart not to go and embrace everyone that you meet and who seems to be nice. Such offers could be misunderstood, and that is something every woman and every girl should protect herself from."

The heartless comments drew worldwide ridicule and caused a firestorm on social media with the hashtag #einearmlaenge ("an arm's length") used to mock her suggestion and for appearing to blame the victims rather than the perpetrators.

Reker also denied that the attacks were exclusively migrants, even though her own police chief said otherwise.

Meanwhile, Judith Wolter, a Council group leader and a lawyer, said in a letter to the people of Cologne that she is submitting a travel warning for the upcoming Cologne carnival in which she says portions of the city are no longer considered safe even in normal times.

“Neither the city nor the police are able to guarantee . . . the safety of tourists and locals. Especially for women it must be assumed that a high security risk is here in the evening and night hours. At New Year’s Eve there was a legal vacuum and a no-go area for women. With the climax of the Carnival season it is unfortunately expected to be a similar situation.”

In other words, German women should not expect any protection from authorities against roving bands of immigrant men.

The German media is also coming under fire for ignoring the story until it could no longer do so, ostensibly because of the ethnic background of the perpetrators and a desire not to appear politically incorrect.

After admitting to their mistaken judgement, however, the assaults are now front-page news.

Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is also under fire for what some consider to be reckless immigration policies, is demanding that local police do more to protect German citizens.

“We want public streets and squares which are safe for men and women,” said a spokesman for Merkel,  who went on to urge police to pursue their investigations irrespective of the suspects’ ethnic origins.

But as of today, no arrests have been made.

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