Germany: Herder (School) pupils harassed in trams and buses

An original translation by Egri Nök

From HNA.De German news site

06.06.16

Southerners touched them indecently

Herder students were molested in trams and buses

Kassel. Pupils from the district of Kassel, visiting the Herder School in Kassel, tell of sexual assaults by southerners in trams and buses.

It took a long time, until the girls confided in her teacher Alexandra Schäfer: The three young women between the ages of 16 and 18 have been sexually harassed repeatedly in the past. On their way to school they were harassed, groped at the thigh, chest, and crotch, men made obscene gestures to them, or yelled “whore” in the faces.

The reason why the girls have been silent for so long – until they could not stand it -, is socio-politically serious: The men who regularly harass and grope them so massively, are likely to be refugees. “We do not want refugees to be discriminated against, we do not want people to make blanket accusations, and by no means we want to cause ill feelings,” says Anna (name changed by the editors). Her political correctness had paralyzed her.

The girls take the tram lines 4 and 8, but also bus lines 18 and 19. There, these men are especially often at the start of school and then again when schools close, as the girls have found.

“Once, seven men at a tram stop came to me and called “’woman, woman, woman”‘. It felt very threatening to me,”says Anna. Her friends nod.

The scenario is all too familiar to them. In the beginning she did not realize, says Anna.

She wondered: Has he just deliberately touched me between the legs, or accidentally? This had happened to her for the first time already on her first day at the Herder School last year. “I was not expecting this at all.”

There is hardly a day without harassment, the three young women tell Ute Ochs of the “Kassel Help”. She came to the school at the initiative of Alexandra Schäfer to discuss with the girls and to encourage them to press charges, even if against persons unknown. Ochs: “This harassment must not be tacitly endured, you have to make them public.”

The great audacity of some much older men is that they have even followed their victims several times even to their house, the young women explain. “It was only when my father came out of the house, that the man got lost,” said (name changed) Lisa. The parents had then informed the police. “If we let them know that we do not want this, they simply grin dirty,” says Lisa.

The girls avoid public transport, as far as this is possible. Meanwhile, they have broken their silence, shared with other Herder pupils, and realized: “Many others have experienced this harassment as well.”

This is what Steffi Burmester of the Working Group “Together active against sexual violence (Gesa)” says:

Have sexual assaults increased with the many male migrants?

Steffi Burmester: Yes, together with the refugees we have, unfortunately, also received a huge package of sexual violence by men.

Why is that?

Burmester: The perpetrators often come from cultures with a different image of women, they are lonesome, and possibly, after a time of flight, fear and humiliation, looking for confirmation of their masculinity. But this is neither excusable nor acceptable.

What needs to be done?

Burmester: We have to make attacks public, even with the danger of playing into right-wingers’ hands. Ultimately, the men have to be re-educated. In order for them to understand it, men from their own culture should do it, even in the mosques.

 

In the Swimming Pool: Intestines Emptied! Women Harassed!

An original translation by Nash Montana with much thanks!

From the German news site, Der Bild

 Internal report tells of feces in pool and attempts to storm the women’s locker rooms

Outrageous accusations coming from the Zwickau Townhall: According to Bäder GmbH, (Baths Inc.) refugees are masturbating and defecating into the water. And they also harass women in the Sauna and have tried to storm the women’s changing rooms.

All this and more is written in a report from January 19th. Rainer Kallwait, ordinance department leader for Bäder GmbH, wrote the report for the safety related services of Bäder GmbH. The city administration has confirmed the authenticity of the report.

Kallweit writes of a memo from Johannisbad Swimming Pool. In it it says, among other things: One asylum seeker masturbated in the whirlpool and ejaculated into the water. It is recorded on surveillance camera.” And, “The swimming pool supervisor threw him out. The asylum seeker came back with comrades to get his cell phone. Together the “visitors”, hooting and jeering, took a selfie in the whirlpool.”

The day before “8 foreign men… were in the Sauma”. “The local people felt harassed. When women are in the Sauna, asylum seekers are now told that the Sauna is closed.”

In general refugees only have free access to the swimming pool. They would have to pay for the use of the Sauna. But they won’t do that, according to Bäder GmbH: “When they were prompted to pay up at the register, they turned around, laughed and left.”

Similar can be read in a memo of „Glück-Auf-Schwimmhalle“, Halle, in Kallwait’s report. A group of “youths, single men and children with guardians” visited said pool in Halle on January 9th. Since none of them could swim, “they used the kids pool.”

”The users contaminated the pool by way of emptying their intestines. Local guests immediately left the pool.”

The report continues: “Furthermore the pool supervisors have to protect women and girls from the asylum seekers. Young men try to forcibly gain access into women’s and girls’ changing rooms. Those acts so far could be deterred.”

Ordinance leader Kallweit wrote, that the Glück-Auf-Schwimmhalle will not let any asylum seekers inside in the future.

First, “they have to be told about user regulations and what is appropriate behavior towards women and girls in swim suits.”

 

Swedish Police: We could have prevented mass sexual assaults

An original translation by Liberty Dk. with much thanks!

From this Danish news site:

The Swedish Police Chief tells us that he will investigate, in depth, the violations that happened during the festival

Swedish police have landed in a political storm after a case has been opened of mass sexual assaults that occurred during a youth festival.
The scandal is unfolding right now in Sweden where it on Sunday was revealed that the police had, for two years, hidden a case of mass assaults on young girls. Assaults, there apparently had been committed during the popular youth festival ‘We are Stockholm’ in the Swedish capital.

The Swedish daily “Today’s News” (Dagens Nyheter) had come into possession of an internal police report that reported the case.
The issue is young men rubbing against the young girls in in the audience just as had happened previous years, it reads in an internal memo from August last year.
The case has also resulted in the response of the Swedish police chief Dan Eliasson.
He denies knowing about the matter before the case began to unfold in the Swedish media.

He further explains that they are taking the matter extremely seriously.

It is serious in many ways. We might have avoided several girls being violated had it come to light earlier. Secondly, it is not our job to take possible political views into considerations. We have to be consistent in our public communications, the police chief says when asked whether the case is serious.
Investigating the matter fully
The Chief of Police is also asked whether he is worried that something similar has happened elsewhere.

No I am not. I would be very surprised if this is a widespread phenomenon. I would also be very disappointed. But we need to investigate this thoroughly and see what happens, says Dan Eliassson.

50 young men and boys are suspected of being behind the attacks, and in the report one can read that the perpetrators are suspected to be refugee youths mainly from Afghanistan. The young men were also stealing mobile phones from the girls while they were violating them.
An anonymous policeman from Stockholm police says to Dagens Nyheter that some of the younger girls were only 11-12 years old.
I would never have let my daughter go to the festival, if I had known what had happened, he says to Dagens Nyheter.

2014 reached new heights

Stockholm city event manager Roger Ticoalu said to the Swedish media “Expressen”, that sexual assaults have always taken place at the festival but that it reached new heights in 2014.
I call it a disastrous phenomenon that we in Sweden could not have been prepared for, like many other things in the past year, he says.

A sore point

Dagens Nyheter also confronted local police, who explained that they failed to disclose the information because of political considerations.
It is a sore point. Sometimes we don’t dare say anything for fear that it would play into the hands of the Swedish Democrats. We must take care of this issue in the police, says Peter Agren, Södermalm Police Chief, to Dagens Nyheter.
The case appears not long after mass sexual assaults in the German city of Cologne, where over 500 women have reported being sexually assaulted and accosted by a large number of men Year’s Eve.

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