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Cologne police chief fired for covering up Muslim New Year’s Eve sex assaults

Jan 9, 2016 3:55 pm By Robert Spencer

Wolfgang Albers is just the fall guy. He was probably trying to do Merkel a favor and cover up exactly how disastrous her refugee policies really are. She is the one who should resign, along with Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker and all the other German officials whose migrant policies have made this invasion possible.

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“Police chief in Cologne, Germany, is fired amid criticism tied to assaults on women,” by Erik Kirschbaum, Los Angeles Times, January 9, 2016 (thanks to Darcy):

The Cologne police chief was fired Friday following reports that authorities in Germany’s fourth-largest city may have covered up information that refugees had been connected to sexual attacks against women outside the central rail station on New Year’s Eve.

Wolfgang Albers, head of the police department, was sent into “early retirement” by the North-Rhine Westphalia state government.

State Interior Minister Ralf Jaeger’s move came after Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker complained that Albers had not given her all relevant information about the molesting, groping and robbing of more than 100 women at the central square near the Cologne Cathedral.

“People rightly want to know what happened on New Year’s Eve, they want to know who the assailants were, and they want to know how such attacks can be prevented in the future,” said Jaeger, sending the 60-year-old into “early retirement” as Germans usually treat such dismissals.

The issue of violence against the women in Cologne and at least four other cities Dec. 31 has unsettled Germany this week and has threatened to turn public sentiment against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s controversial policies of allowing more than 1.1 million refugees into the country last year. Aside from Sweden, Merkel has had little support for her open-door policies from any other European Union country.

“My confidence in the Cologne police leadership has been deeply shaken based on the information I now have available,” Reker said in a statement. “I simply cannot accept it when I only get information from the media about the investigation into the New Year’s Eve attacks, especially information about the origins of the groups of suspected assailants.”…

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  1. Salome says

    Jan 9, 2016 at 3:59 pm

    Is anyone with me in believing that Albers didn’t hide info from Reker?

    • Hope says

      Jan 9, 2016 at 4:27 pm

      Yes, of course. Someone had to be the scapegoat and this guy was the easiest target.

      • nicu says

        Jan 9, 2016 at 5:49 pm

        exactly !

        he did what they wanted him to do ! Muslim crimes they always try to sweep under the rag .

      • Rob says

        Jan 9, 2016 at 10:41 pm

        With or without that information, Reker’s suggestions were monstrous.
        Would it have made a difference if the perps were scouts from an international jamboree with every imaginable ethnicity involved?
        Would ‘cover up against rampaging boy scouts’ have made it past the first PR draft?

    • TheBuffster says

      Jan 9, 2016 at 6:10 pm

      Yes, the question we need answered is “Why would Albers hide anything from the *mayor*?” We get why he would hide information from the public, but it doesn’t make sense that he would hide it from Reker – unless she’s such a multi-culti fanatic that she’d react badly to the information, and he wanted to avoid that.

    • Bamaguje says

      Jan 10, 2016 at 5:15 am

      What was there to hide? The mass Muslim molestation of women happened in public, not in secret.
      The Cologne mayor is disingenuously trying to shift blame and shirk responsibility. She earlier tried to blame the women victims, by recommending a “code of conduct” for women.
      If she didn’t know about the mass Muslim assault of German women, what was the basis of her recommendation for the women to behave?

    • Paul says

      Jan 11, 2016 at 8:16 am

      Agree

  2. Infidel from Down Under says

    Jan 9, 2016 at 4:15 pm

    Maybe the person at the top should take responsibility. Merkel should do the honorable thing and resign.

    That would also send a message to other Governments and their leaders throughout the Western World – that their citizens are no longer going to stand and watch their countries destroyed by an invading mass of stone age religious zealots with no regard for local laws and civility

  3. Don McKellar says

    Jan 9, 2016 at 4:28 pm

    Merkel is one of the few elected leaders of the modern era who as actually gone insane while in office. She has literally lost her mind and nobody is going to step in and pull her out of there. What a nightmare for Germany. A madwoman at the helm on a self-destructive mission to destroy her own country and nobody with any authority to arrest her or relieve her of her office and try and turn the disaster around.

    • Caroline says

      Jan 9, 2016 at 5:06 pm

      A lot like Hitler then.

      • TheBuffster says

        Jan 9, 2016 at 6:38 pm

        Except I think Merkel’s behavior has a lot to do with trying to avoid being like Hitler, i.e., not discriminating against people of another race and culture. Embracing the needy and the lost. Enduring hardship for the sake of “the other”.

        Ironic that in attempting to avoid being like a Nazi she is, in fact, bringing in hoards of believers in a religion that hates Jews and orders its followers to conquer and subjugate unbelievers until the whole world is under the rule of its god.

        Ironic, also, that Hitler, as reported by Albert Speer (Hitler’s chief architect and also his Minister of Armaments and War Production for part of WWII), said that he wished Islam had been Germany’s religion because it was far better suited to Nazi aims, rather than Christianity “…with its meekness and flabbiness…”

        So unless Merkel’s real aim is to destroy Germany and give a huge presences to a Nazi- compatible religion, she has landed in a gigantic pool of deadly irony, and I doubt she’s going to be willing to face that fact – at least not publicly – until things are so bloody bad it gives her a heart attack.

        • Don McKellar says

          Jan 9, 2016 at 7:32 pm

          Merkel’s middle name will be “tragic irony” in the history books.

    • Hugh says

      Jan 9, 2016 at 5:08 pm

      Don;
      There is “authority” to try to get a German Chancellor to resign and hold a new election.

      A motion of no confidence (alternatively vote of no confidence, censure motion, no-confidence motion, or (unsuccessful) confidence motion) is a statement or vote that a person or persons in a position of responsibility (government, managerial, etc.) is no longer deemed fit to hold that position: perhaps because they are inadequate in some respect, are failing to carry out obligations, or are making decisions that other members feel are detrimental. As a parliamentary motion, it demonstrates to the head of state that the elected parliament no longer has confidence in (one or more members of) the appointed government.
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_German_federal_election

      But who in the German Parliament will step up?

      • Don McKellar says

        Jan 9, 2016 at 7:44 pm

        Yes, who will stand up, Hugh?

        I would think that any members who have woken up to the lunacy of what has happened, want to save their country, and want to remain in government come next election, should right about now be burning the midnight oil to work out a motion of no confidence. Otherwise the almost the whole parliament is going to be swept away if they have to wait for a federal election.

        What should also weigh on their minds (if they have any) is that Merkel also made the astonishing blunder of announcing that the “migrants” there for only economic reasons must leave in a year! Which, of course, is a majority of them. She announced this in Sept. Can you imagine the chaos which is going to ensue when she tries to do this?

        If any German politicians have anything to them at all, they’ve got to get rid of her and get rid of her right now and work like mad to turn this sinking ship around. Every day they wait the level of future tragedy increases. There is no escape.

    • nicu says

      Jan 9, 2016 at 5:50 pm

      She is unbearable and ruins Europe without a single shot ( herself )

      Muslim have guns !

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 9, 2016 at 8:53 pm

      Merkel actually seemed like one of the saner European leaders when she was first elected.

    • jill says

      Jan 12, 2016 at 12:35 pm

      This sounds dreadfully like the mess the US has with Obama. Your statement about Merkel fits him perfectly as well.

  4. JAS says

    Jan 9, 2016 at 4:49 pm

    It’s always “migrants”, or “refugees”. or maybe “syrians” but we all know the problem is MUSLIMS, not refugees! When you open your home up to thugs, fanatics and medieval, low-life criminals you are not gonna be happy with the results. When you are putting out the welcome sign, Just remember that to millions of muslims, this is still the seventh century, and regardless of the media attempts to portray them all as “families”, they are nearly all single muslim men without families…

    • Hugh says

      Jan 9, 2016 at 5:03 pm

      Well stated JAS.

    • Charli Main says

      Jan 10, 2016 at 6:40 am

      In Britain its the ” Asians” that have to take the shyte stirred up by the activities and behaviour of the Muslims infesting the country. There are no Muslim rape gangs, Muslim mass murdering terrorists, Muslim Jihad supporters and Muslim no-go zones- –only ” Asian ” ones.
      To call a Muslim a Muslim is racist, bigoted, xenophobic and Islamophobic.

  5. Hugh says

    Jan 9, 2016 at 5:01 pm

    Good riddance to another secular feminized German official. Come on … does this guy look like a real German police chief? I think the pop of an air rifle would frighten this wuss.

  6. Joaquin Veyron says

    Jan 9, 2016 at 6:05 pm

    Mr. Albers is simply a pawn sacrifice.
    The following has to be done:
    1. the criminals must be apprehended, punshed and deported to their home countries swiftly!
    2. we must stop the uncontrolled, illegal mass influx of millions of Muslims/Africans. Access to Germany/Europe only when status as asylum seeker has been proven – but outside Germany, within a refugee reception centre outside Europe
    3. dismiss all politicians who are responsible for this mess. New elections have to be organized immediately.
    4. re-organize the entire public media sector. They are as responsible as the politicians!

    • Linde Barrera says

      Jan 9, 2016 at 8:13 pm

      To Joaquin Veyron- As per your 6:05 pm post of Jan. 9, 2016, I liked all of your suggestions, they are all worthy and feasible. I would like to add one more to your list; that the majority of the general public of each non-Muslim country stop acting like schmucks and learn about the disgustingness of Islam.

    • Westman says

      Jan 10, 2016 at 12:13 am

      I also think this was throwing police under the bus. The Police Chief was not responsible for lawless behavior of migrants.

      An eyewitness said the Police were not only overwhelmed but also ran out of jailspace in all the surrounding towns and had to let earlier arrestees out to jail the newly arrested. The entire enforcement apparatus broke down, not because of incompetence, because of overwhelming lawless muslim mobs.

      This had never happened and could not have been forseen. Welcome, Frau Merkel, to the permanent economic drain that migrant’s will place on Germany just for security alone. Reker’s firing of the chief only refects on her failure to see the potential of the “testosterone bomb” of male migrants.

  7. JawsV says

    Jan 9, 2016 at 6:08 pm

    Why the West has submitted to Islam in the 21st century I’ll never understand. The 7th century throwbacks should have never been let in! That’s a no-brainer.

  8. spartan says

    Jan 9, 2016 at 6:48 pm

    It is no wonder many Muslims feel such contempt for Western civilization, which doesn’t even believe in or respect itself enough to resist the Muslim hijrah now underway. Its leaders open the gates and punish any Westerner who tries to resist the Muslim invaders.

    And worse is to come. We know the poor refugees have sex on their minds now, and the second stage of their mission is to reproduce and create as many new Muslims as they can – NOT as many as they can afford: that part of the mission will be paid for by Kuffar taxpayers through welfare. This is the Jizya – tax payable by Kuffars to Islam as punishment for offending Allah – of the 21st century. We are all paying it already.

  9. jura says

    Jan 9, 2016 at 6:50 pm

    I saw the press conference. The police chef was not hiding basic facts as much as the mayor of Cologne. In fact, the mayor was trying to “soften” facts provided by the police chef.

    • Ciudadano says

      Jan 9, 2016 at 7:46 pm

      Yeah, I think they fired him because he revealed too much info and at the same time was a good scapegoat. Politicians are the same every where.

      • Rob says

        Jan 10, 2016 at 3:16 am

        Yeah.
        Look what happened to the school admin and on-campus security that apprehended ‘clock boy’.
        Not sure that tough guy looks show resolute behaviour.
        Isn’t there a mayor in the US who refuses to countenance the possibility that a guy in a kaftan shouting Islamic slogans shooting a lone police officer, is motivated by Islam.
        I thought the US has so many elected officials so the bastards could be voted out or recalled.

  10. Wellington says

    Jan 9, 2016 at 7:08 pm

    Here’s a beautiful thought: Virtually all Western elites fired or defeated in elections in one Western nation after another and replaced with those who truly understand Islam.

    The fact that this beautiful thought is indeed a fantasy speaks volumes, I would argue, about the present state of things in the West. The suicide of the West is in full swing, courtesy first and foremost of very silly but powerful Westerners, and not first and foremost because of Muslims and their wretched religion.

    A greater mass suicide in all of man’s history I could not point to than what is presently going on respecting how Western elites, especially political elites, from the mayor of Cologne to the mayor of Philadelphia, from the Chancellor of Germany to the new Prime Minister of Canada, et al., continue to mindlessly defend the totalitarian ideology which is Islam, done so in the name of those twin idiocies, political correctness and multiculturalism.

    The Age of Nonsense in in full swing. Yes it is. Truly.

  11. gravenimage says

    Jan 9, 2016 at 8:40 pm

    Cologne police chief fired for covering up Muslim New Year’s Eve sex assaults
    …………………………

    Yes–Wolfgang Albers *is* just the fall guy. Not that this excuses his failing the very people he is supposed to protect, though–it’s just that he is *far* from the only one.

    More:

    “My confidence in the Cologne police leadership has been deeply shaken based on the information I now have available,” Reker said in a statement. “I simply cannot accept it when I only get information from the media about the investigation into the New Year’s Eve attacks, especially information about the origins of the groups of suspected assailants.”…
    …………………………

    This said by the same mayor who *blamed women* for their being assaulted by ravening Muslim assailants:

    Cologne Mayor: Women should be more careful after Muslim mass rapes, promises “guidance” so they can “prepare”

    http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/cologne-mayor-women-should-be-more-careful-after-muslim-mass-rapes-promises-guidance-so-they-can-prepare

  12. abad says

    Jan 10, 2016 at 10:08 am

    Here is an idea.

    Every EU pro-Muslim member should be forced to spend five minutes in Syria surrounded by ISL members wielding their Allahu Akhbar inscribed scimitars.

    Now.

    If after these five minutes the EU members are still alive (which they will not be) – they can live in Syria permanently, and let the sane people of Europe reestablish sane governments, with closed borders.

    Just say No to Islam.

  13. steve says

    Jan 10, 2016 at 2:52 pm

    Probably merkel’s cousin!

  14. Mark A says

    Jan 11, 2016 at 4:51 am

    So the Cologne police chief takes the fall for Angela Merkel and that pathetic excuse for a Mayor of Cologne.

    The excrement does, in fact, roll downhill. There should be job losses amongst the top political ranks over this too.

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