Nice to see you quoting a guy who states that "the people we welcomed three months ago..." were responsible for this, without any evidence in that regard and who already has at least one video from three months ago that goes on and on about how the media is lying to us and how refugees are probably going to end the western civilization. Cool.
Daily note that there is absolutely no evidence that this has anything to do with refugees. There is one account that says a cop had confirmed behind the scenes that several detained people were refugees, but to this day I have found no confirmed source for this. Only in the last few days the police have officially confirmed that seven suspects have been identified. Indeed, they are suspecting organised crime to be involved, which would go directly counter to the argument that refugees are involved, except if we want to think that refugees who arrived here 2 months ago have already established an organised gang structure.
Here is some context: The main station in cologne has been home to a few groups who are part of the organized crime in the city who use the tourist spot (it's directly in front of the Kölner Dom, the main tourist spot of the city) for their criminal activity. This has been going on for years and has nothing to do with refugees or anything of the like. There are a LOT of arabian- or african-looking germans, especially in Nordrhein-Westfalen and to go from "They looked arabic!" to "The were syrian refugees" is completely and utterly insane.
Responses in this thread sound like the stuff I only hear from right-wing extremists like the AFD and NPD here in germany. Something the thread opener seems to ignore: Just yesterday Angela Merkel also called the german people to be "open and respecful" to strangers at all times (
http://www.donaukurier.de/nachricht...heit-gegenueber-Fremden-auf;art154776,3165377).
Merkel does not link these attacks to refugees, nor does her party or any other party apart from the two right-wing parties mentioned above and there is no evidence suggesting it apart from "well, I dunno, I guess they looked arabic?"
The answer to these events have been very objective and responsible by most politicians and main stream media here in germany. I wished that was the case here, too. But I guess it's easier to paint a country in flames.