We knew it was coming. Like a freight train. Like a disaster in slow motion. Like a wrecking ball hitting Wile E. Coyote. And it did happen, and the German media is silent. From the UK Daily Mail:
Outlining the incidents, police from Cologne and neighbouring Leverkusen said there had been 673 crimes reported of which 55 were sexual, ranging from people who had been groped through to rape.
In addition, 432 people ended up being taken into custody. Police said all these figures represented an increase on the year before.
The violent confrontation which ended carnival festivities this week happened when a group of asylum seekers clashed with carnival-goers.
Police said a knife had been used and that three people were hospitalised as a result of the attack, which was started by an alleged sexual assault on a young woman by one of the refugees.
They said that one of the asylum seekers, believed to be a 27-year-old from North Africa, had groped the 19-year-old and that the carnival-goers had stepped in to protect her.
The Cologne and Leverkusen police force said officers calmed the situation down and made arrests.
They also announced that they ordered bars and clubs in the Bahnhofstrasse area of Leverkusen to close in order to prevent the violence from spreading and going out of control.
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