A string of attacks on women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve blamed largely on foreigners was “intolerable,” Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman says Monday, but “nothing excuses” retaliatory assaults on immigrants.
Merkel has proposed making it easier to deport immigrants involved in crimes, and her spokesman Steffen Seibert emphasizes the government is looking into both “possible consequences for criminal law (and) possible political consequences for the intolerable crimes.”
But after Cologne police said a group of Pakistanis and a Syrian were attacked in the city on Sunday, Seibert says Germans must not blame all the nearly 1.1 million migrants who entered the country last year, and says the government is also focused on their welfare.
The six Pakistani nationals were attacked Sunday by around 20 people and two of them were briefly admitted to a hospital, police said. Also Sunday evening, five people attacked a Syrian man, who was injured but didn’t need treatment.
— AFP
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