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German press deliberately covering up Muslim identity of attackers in rape crisis

Oct 26, 2016 10:21 am By Robert Spencer

“When reporting on criminal offenses, details about the religious, ethnic or other background information of the suspects or perpetrators is to be mentioned only if it is absolutely necessary (begründeter Sachbezug) to understand the reported event. Remember that such references could foment prejudices against minorities.”

Translation: We want to sell the German public on this Muslim migrant inundation. So don’t tell the people that Muslim migrants are involved in sexual assaults and rapes on a near-daily basis.

This is treason, as it is leading Germany to national disaster, and the German Press Council should be prosecuted. But who would initiate such a prosecution? Angela Merkel?

Austria migrants

“Germany’s Migrant Rape Crisis: Where is the Public Outrage?,” by Soeren Kern, Gatestone Institute, October 26, 2016:

A group of Serbian teenagers in the northern German city of Hamburg were handed suspended sentences for gang-raping a 14-year-old girl and leaving her for dead in sub-zero temperatures.

The judge said that although “the penalties may seem mild to the public,” the teens had all made confessions, appeared remorseful and longer posed a danger to society.

The October 24 ruling, which effectively allowed the rapists to walk free, provoked a rare moment of public outrage over the problem of migrant sex crimes in Germany. An online petition calling for the teens to see time in prison has garnered more than 80,000 signatures, and prosecutors are appealing the verdict.

Thousands of women and children have been raped or sexually assaulted in Germany since Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed into the country more than one million mostly male migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Germany’s migrant rape crisis — which has continued unabated day after day for more than a year — has now spread to cities and towns in all 16 of Germany’s federal states. Despite the mounting human toll, most of the crimes are still being downplayed by German authorities and the media, apparently to avoid fueling anti-immigration sentiments.

The German Press Council (Presserat) enforces a politically correct “code of media ethics” that restricts the information journalists can use in their stories. Paragraph 12.1 of the code states:

“When reporting on criminal offenses, details about the religious, ethnic or other background information of the suspects or perpetrators is to be mentioned only if it is absolutely necessary (begründeter Sachbezug) to understand the reported event. Remember that such references could foment prejudices against minorities.”

On October 17, the Press Council reprimanded the weekly newspaper, Junge Freiheit, for revealing the nationality of three Afghan teenagers who raped a woman at a train station in Vienna, Austria, in April 2016. The press council said the nationality of the perpetrators is “not relevant” to the case, and by revealing this information the newspaper “deliberately and pejoratively represented the suspects as second-class persons.”

In the interests of “fair reporting,” the council demanded that the newspaper remove the offending item from its website. The newspaper refused to comply and said it would continue to publish the nationalities of criminal suspects.

Lutz Tillmanns, the Press Council’s managing director, said that self-censorship is necessary to avoid discrimination:

“An essential human rights-related principle is not to discriminate. When we refer to an individual we do not want to harm the entire group. This is, of course, a bigger issue for minorities than for the majority.”

According to Hendrik Cremer of the German Institute for Human Rights, the Press Council’s code of ethics also applies to German police, who often censor the information they release to the media:

“The police are not to provide information about the skin color, religion, nationality or national or ethnic origin of a suspect to the media or to the public. They may only do this if it is absolutely necessary, which is the case, for example, when they are searching for a suspect.”

Arnold Plickert, director of the GdP Police Union in North Rhine-Westphalia, said self-censorship by the police is counterproductive:

“The police are not interested in stigmatizing but rather in educating the public. The impression that we are engaging in censorship is devastating to the public’s confidence in the police. Sharing information about suspects is also important for developing prevention strategies. We must be allowed to talk openly about the problems of this country. This includes talking about the clear over-representation of young migrants in our crime rosters.”

An example of how the Press Council’s restrictions distort reporting on migrant crime can be found in the October 2 rape of a 90-year-old woman outside a church in downtown Düsseldorf. The Hamburger Morgenpost reported that the perpetrator was a “homeless 19-year-old” (obdachlosen 19-Jährigen). Düsseldorf Police described the suspect as “a Southern European with North African roots.” The newspaper Bild later revealed that he is actually a Moroccan with a Spanish passport who is well known to German police as a serial shoplifter and purse-snatcher.

Another example: On September 30, a 28-year-old migrant sexually assaulted a 27-year-old woman on a Paris to Mannheim express train. Local media initially reported the nationality of the perpetrator but then deleted the information. A statement explained:

“This article initially included the nationality of the offender. The reference was subsequently removed because it did not correspond to our editorial guidelines — that is, there is no connection between nationality and action.”

The German Press Council has rejected calls to rescind Paragraph 12.1. “This regulation is not a muzzle, but merely a guide for ethically appropriate behavior,” said council spokesman Manfred Protze.

Tanit Koch, the editor in chief of Bild, the most-read newspaper in Germany, said:

“The Press Council believes that editorial offices in Germany should ultimately treat their readers like children by depriving them of relevant information. We think this is wrong because when people realize that something is being concealed from them, they react with mistrust. And this mistrust is a hazard.”

The Press Council argues that the aim of voluntary self-regulation is to prevent the government from regulating the media. The council, which has so far limited its activities to the print media and associated websites, is now drafting an “online code” to regulate blogs, videos and podcasts.

Gatestone Institute first reported Germany’s migrant rape crisis in September 2015, when Merkel opened up the German border to tens of thousands of migrants stranded in Hungary. A follow-up report was published in March 2016, in the aftermath of mass attacks against German women by mobs of migrants in Cologne, Hamburg and other German cities. In August 2016, Gatestone reported that the suppression of data about migrant rapes is a Germany-wide practice.

The mainstream media’s failure to report the true scope of Germany’s migrant rape crisis may explain why — after more than a year of daily sexual assaults — there has been very little public outrage over the calamity that has befallen so many Germans. Censorship has effectively become a national security problem.

Public spaces in Germany have become increasingly perilous. Migrants have assaulted German women and children at beaches, bike trails, cemeteries, discotheques, grocery stores, music festivals, parking garages, playgrounds, schools, shopping malls, taxis, public transportation (buses, trams, intercity express trains and subways), public parks, public squares, public swimming pools and public restrooms. Nowhere is safe.

On October 1, two migrants raped a 23-year-old woman in Lüneburg. She was walking in a park with her young child when the two men ambushed from behind. The men, who escaped and remain at large, forced the child to watch while they took turns attacking the woman.

October 8, a 25-year-old migrant from Syria groped a 15-year-old girl in Moers. The girl responded by slapping the man in the face. The man called police and complained that the girl had mistreated him. The man was arrested for sexual assault.

On October 18, Sigrid Meierhofer, the mayor of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in an urgent letter (Brandbrief) to the Bavarian government, threatened to close a shelter that houses 250 mostly male migrants from Africa if public safety and order could not be restored. The letter, which was leaked to the Münchner Merkur, stated that local police had responded to more emergency calls during the past six weeks than in all of the previous 12 months combined.

On October 24, a YouGov poll found that 68% of Germans believe that security in the country has deteriorated over the past two or three years. Also, 68% of respondents said they fear for their lives and property in German train stations and subways, while 63% feel unsafe at large public events.

Meanwhile, the Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt, BKA) has offered advice to German women on how they can protect themselves from rapists: “Wear tennis shoes instead of high heels so that you can run away.”

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  1. Jay Boo says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 10:42 am

    Rampant Rapists

    The German press would obviously not even need to cover it up if it were only a “few bad apples” acting like Islam’s so called ‘prophet’ Muhammad.

    • john spielman says

      Oct 26, 2016 at 11:09 am

      the more the German govt covers up the crimes committed by muslims in the name of/ for islam against the ethnic German people, the more they are pushing the people to right wing pro nationalist parties ( and we know where that can go if left unchecked by Christian principles)

  2. Jay Boo says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 11:03 am

    What could possibly go wrong in inviting Muslims from a terrorism and rape culture to a peaceful ski resort of Garmisch-Partenkirchen full of unsuspecting tourists as ‘soft-targets’ to establish their terrorist ‘safe house’ near Germany’s Southern Border surrounded by remote countryside border crossings?

    It is time for Merkel to admit failure and call Donald Trump in with a border building crew.

    • Mak says

      Oct 26, 2016 at 11:12 am

      No way! We need Donald here in the US protecting us. They made their mess. They can’t have any of our rational leaders.

      We made our mess (Obama & his Umma) but hopefully on Nov 8 if enough of us go the effort we will not see the wicked witch of the Mosque (Hillary) in office.

      • Judi says

        Oct 26, 2016 at 11:59 am

        If he can get past the rampant voter fraud. It’s already started in Texas.

        • Jay Boo says

          Oct 27, 2016 at 2:26 am

          I expect massive Hillary supporter trickery.

          NPR unintentionally tipped me off when they started projecting a hypothetical conspiracy that Russia might cyber trick the election in Trump’s favor which probably means that they have been tipped off that in reality that Hillary supporters are planning to fix the election and NPR is trying to get out in front of it by slandering Russia as a diversion.

  3. Mr. Farton says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 11:21 am

    NAZI politicians are living in “lala” land. The most tragic part is that it is always the most vulnerable people who are victimized by the policies of the elite. Despicable cowards.

  4. andra says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 11:23 am

    Those Germans who are able to understand the way the German MSM work know how to read articles on crimes. If you only get the Information that “a man” committed a crime you can be sure it is neither a German nor a Dutch or a French man. If you learn in the article that a knife was involved you can be sure it was not a German as it is not a German habit to run around with knives.

  5. David says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 11:27 am

    This situation is an absolute HORROR! Is any German Child, Woman or even Elder safe in their own neighborhoods any more? And this whole “migrant” sewer is right in Merkel’s lap. What a diabolical psycopath she must be.
    The German people’s must rise up and overthrown this fool! And the sooner the better.
    Seal the borders and round up every last “migrant”. Ship them all back to happy Donkey-dip Land. Learn from Merkel’s mistake (or is it Treason? “.) And don’t let it happen again.
    GOOD LUCK.

  6. Mr. Farton says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 11:34 am

    This is disturbing. Germany is a third world country. Merkel should be in prison for destroying the rule of law in Germany. According to her, German women have no human rights.

  7. Baucent says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 11:36 am

    ” Remember that such references could foment prejudices against minorities.”

    So much for the free press. self censorship makes them no better than propaganda organs.

    The left wing media, politicians and Police are colluding to deceive the German public as to the extent of the migrant crime wave.

  8. mortimer says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 11:41 am

    Non-Muslims who are not under the dhimmi contract (that includes ALL Germans) are ‘mubaa’ (licit to be plundered or violated…fair game).

    All Muslim males know this and laugh about it among themselves.

    Meanwhile, our Western elites…a bunch of arrogant know-nothings in the matter of Islam…present themselves patronizingly as guardians of tolerance of this intolerant group of supremacists.

  9. Angemon says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 12:15 pm

    Remember that such references could foment prejudices against minorities.

    Yeah, keep pushing that and see how far it gets you…

  10. IndianTiger says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 1:49 pm

    It is tragic that islam’s filth has arrived in Europe. Austria, Germany, Sweden, Norway….. have all shot themselves in the foot. Hungary has proved to be the smartest in keeping these barbarians out.

  11. davej says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 5:06 pm

    They want to be such good humanitarians to the Muslim refugees (who spit in their faces) but refuse to protect their own citizens. Accurate and honest reporting of crimes is part of their jobs, if for no other reason than to alert people to the danger.

    Advising women to wear sneakers “so they can run away” doesn’t count as protection and wouldn’t work anyway because the rapists most often work in gangs and wolf packs.

    They are at war with us and we can’t name the enemy – that is a blueprint for defeat.

  12. Ginger says

    Oct 26, 2016 at 6:37 pm

    In England a judge has banned the identification of a group of Muslim sex abusers who targeted a girl when she was under age on the spurious grounds that publishing their names would identify the victim. Scandalously, the social services decided that there wasn’t enough evidence to continue with a court case. Yes, it was in Rotherham, Yorkshire, where it is already known that for decades at least 1400 under-age girls suffered at the hands of sexual perverts whose crimes were covered up by social services and the police. The judge granted lifelong anonymity to the four men, usually given to a victim.

    • Kay says

      Oct 27, 2016 at 12:28 am

      God help us!

  13. Lexa456 says

    Oct 27, 2016 at 3:07 am

    There is another example of adulterated reporting: A few months ago there was an incident in the German city of Reutlingen. An asylum-seeker has killed a single mother in the middle of the day with a machete. The crime was sold by the press as a “relationship act”. Actually the woman knew the man only from seeing. He often showed up at the snack bar where she had been working and has repeatedly tried to hit her up. When she declined again and again, he freaked out one day (the attack). I know that because my cousin knows the work colleague of the murdered.

    • Badger says

      Oct 27, 2016 at 5:52 am

      thank you for that damning information

  14. Badger says

    Oct 27, 2016 at 5:51 am

    Treason. This is how 1,400 British white girls and children were raped and abused in Rotherham and it still goes on wherever there are muslims in the UK

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