The riverfront area along the Rhine in Cologne is becoming more and more violent and unruly as it becomes more and more culturally enriched. The situation has become so bad that Mayor Reker has had to address it.
Many thanks to Nash Montana for translating this article from Bild:
Rhine boulevard on the Rhine becoming too brutal
Mayor Henriette Reker talks to BILD
Cologne — The Rhine Boulevard degrades into a brutal place. Over and over again on sunny weekends it becomes unruly: insults, mass brawls, drugs. One 17-year-old was stabbed in the back. The police file “Rhine Boulevard” keeps getting bigger and bigger.
The 17-year-old was peacefully celebrating on the 25-Milion-Euro-Mile in Deutz. Only a few hours later a witness told the man that he was bleeding. Someone stabbed him in the back when he wanted to mediate in a fight. It was a mild consequence in a place where things have become more and more extreme.
Here’s a look at last weekend. From Friday to Saturday the police controlled [did ID checks on] 47 people. 34 people were expelled from the place. From Saturday to Sunday there were 44 controls, and 18 expulsions.
The police wrote up reports all weekend — for violation of narcotic laws, for insult against the police, for bodily harm, for theft. And it is also logged that the majority of those controlled were men with a migration background, say the police.
Security at Rhine Boulevard? Not nearly! BILD noticed that security forces disappeared after 8:30pm. And the police couldn’t be on location continuously. No consequential surveillance, but one big free license for criminal and other activity!
The man who stabbed the 17-year-old on Friday evening could not be found. The police are still hoping for witnesses. The suspect, about 20 years old, was around 1.80 meters tall and had black hair. The sides were shaved short, and on top of his head the hair was tied into a knot. He had a full beard and wore a blue-jean jacket.
Meanwhile politicians also have begun to deal with the topic “Rhine Boulevard”. The parties are going to discuss tighter security measures on Tuesday at a meeting.
Henriette Reker, Mayor, (60, no party affiliation) stated to BILD concerning the problems at Rhine Boulevard: “I find it shocking that this beautiful place is being misused for bad behavior. It just can’t be that a certain circle of people abuses the Domblick for their out-of-control alcohol and drug consumption and therefore are behaving extremely aggressively.”
The mayor said: “All in all, the situation has to be improved. We are trying to do that now with an increased deployment of security forces together with increased police presence. Furthermore, we will consider a shisha ban at Rhine boulevard. And the public toilets will have to be considered as well.”
Sometimes it is comical the lengths the authorities must go to to avoid calling a spade a spade; the mayor of Cologne is reduced to talking of banning shisha along the boulevard instead of banning Nafris (since only Nafris partake of smoking shisha), and speaking of public toilets, presumably to discourage the cultural practice of urinating and defecating wherever one feels the need to, as a pigeon or cow would do. Because, we all know how respectful Nafris are of public spaces, and how cleanly and hygenic they are if only given the opportunity and proper facilities for the passage of urine and feces.
This. The authorities are making themselves more and more ridiculous with their inability to tackle the actual problem, instead they are always reverting to genuinely baffling levels of political correctness to avoid naming the problem itself, and then actually doing something about it.
A long time ago, we sat along that river bank, enjoying the rolling stream, the perambulating couples, the kids now and then, and the distant sounds of Dixieland jazz when the breeze was right. An idyll earned by the labor, ingenuity and determination of Germans, which present-day Germans will never experience.
“…….earned by the labor, ingenuity and determination of Germans…… .”
jlh, an excellent comment. Germans have created something extraordinary but the leaders are choosing (choosing) to throw all that away, while in the case of “the led”, we are-blindly or otherwise-allowing that to happen.
Your comment makes me, too, profoundly and truly sad, because it reflects, in its last few words, the feeling, or the belief (which I share) that Europe is indeed lost.
The rise of the German totalitarian state is inevitable.
It is. It’s far too late now to stop the multiculti train from smashing into the buffers of reality, without some major application of extreme prejudice in the immediate future that is, and perhaps not even then.
“Someone stabbed him in the back when he wanted to mediate in a fight.”
First mistake.
People who have to deal with Muslim and African immigrants would do well to read The Talk…nonblack version by John Derbyshire
Most important rule: don’t play good Samaritan.
Amen.
White knighting is merely fantastic way to get yourself killed.
Ms. Reker is the genius who – in the wake of the Cologne assaults – suggested that women should keep men at arms length.
– Ban, ban, ban is always the solution. Banning the people who are causing the problems from entering the country never seems to be an option.