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Over the weekend, some 20 unidentified assailants cornered and attacked migrants in the German city of Cologne. The victims included a half dozen Pakistani men, two of whom were hospitalized. There was a separate assault on a Syrian asylum seeker, who was lightly injured after being set upon by five attackers.
The incidents follow a grim spate of attacks that took place in Cologne and a handful of other northern European cities on New Year’s Eve. In Cologne, mobs of men, the majority of whom were reported to be of North African or Arab origin, robbed and sexually assaulted female passersby and clashed with an overwhelmed, startled police force.
washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/01/11/after-new-years-eve-assaults-muslim-migrants-targeted-in-cologne/Still, there is no clear link between the New Year’s Eve assaults and refugees. German authorities, as my colleague Anthony Faiola reports, are struggling to tamp down hate speech against Muslims and migrants. Officials even won the cooperation of companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google to curb offensive material and comments online.