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    German town bans asylum seekers from swimming pool after harassment complaints

    Town near Cologne bans male asylum seekers from public swimming pool after complaints that some women were sexually harassed there

    A western German town has barred adult male asylum seekers from its public indoor swimming pool after receiving complaints that some women were sexually harassed there.

    Markus Schnapka, head of the social affairs department in Bornheim, a town 20 miles south of Cologne, said pool users had complained of sexual harassment by men living in a nearby asylum-seeker shelter.

    He said none of the complaints were criminal and the pool had agreed the ban would end once social workers confirmed the men "got the message".

    It was the latest sign of social tensions related to the arrival last year of 1.1 million migrants in Germany, followed by sex assaults on women by young male asylum seekers and migrants during New Year's Eve celebrations in Cologne.

    "There have been complaints of sexual harassment and chatting-up going on in this swimming pool ... by groups of young men, and this has prompted some women to leave (the premises)," Mr Schnapka told Reuters.

    This led to my decision that adult males from our asylum shelters may not enter the swimming pool until further notice."

    A national poll Friday showed that Germans are becoming increasingly concerned about the country's ability to integrate the huge numbers of asylum-seekers who arrived last year.

    Sixty-six per cent of the 1,203 respondents said Germany cannot handle the migrant influx, up from 46 per cent in December.

    A German town, 50 miles north of Cologne, has cancelled one of its carnival parades over fears of a repeat of the sexual assaults that took place in Cologne.

    The town of Rheinsberg said refugees might visit the parade taking place in its Orsoy suburb in a drunken state, potentially causing conflict.

    There are currently 300 refugees living in the Orsoy neighbourhood, where the parade was due to be held on February 8, with a further 200 expected to arrive at the start of February.

    The town emphasised that there were other concerns which contributed to the decision to cancel the street party.

    The parade was traditionally held on a Sunday, with a turnout of around 2,500 visitors. But the decision to hold it on Monday this year could have led to double that number turning up.

    The town was also concerned that a “problematic audience” would turn up “who had chosen their parade because they think it will not be so closely controlled by police and security personnel”.

    Traffic jams caused by increased traffic entering and leaving the town was cited as a further reason for the cancellation.

    Cologne's preparations for its own carnival, with the festival’s highlight of Rose Monday typically attracting more than 10,000 visitors alone, are going ahead as usual.

    Figures released on Friday showed that the number of applications from asylum seekers from Algeria and Morocco has risen sharply.

    Almost 2,300 Algerians and 3,000 Moroccans applied for asylum in Germany in December alone, reported the Frankfurter Rundschau citing figures from the Federal Agency for Migration and Refugees.

    By contrast, August saw less than 1,500 applications from the two countries put together, while there were less than 4,000 asylum seekers from both lands in the whole of 2014.

    Morocco and Algeria are currently not on the list of countries deemed safe – lands designated as such mean people from those countries have a much lower chance of being granted asylum.

    But there are growing calls within German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union party to add Algeria and Morocco to the list following the Cologne attacks. In the past year, just 3.74 per cent of Moroccan asylum seekers and 1.6 per cent of those from Algeria were deemed in need of protection in Germany.

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    German town cancels annual carnival over fears of Cologne-style sex assaults on women

    Rheinberg 'cannot rule out' drunken refugees preying on women in town

    Organisers don't have time to develop security plan after Cologne attacks

    Cologne and Dusseldorf insist their carnival will go ahead as planned

    A German town has cancelled its annual carnival scheduled for next month over fears of Cologne-style sex assaults on women.

    Rheinberg, which is near the Rhine metropolis, said it 'cannot rule out' the possibility of drunken refugees coming into town to prey on women.

    Cologne police are dealing with over 500 complaints of sexual assault and robbery against young women by gangs of marauding asylum seekers in the city on New Year's Eve.

    Other similar attacks also took place on a smaller scale in several other German cities, including Hamburg and Bielefeld.

    Rheinberg has, like most German municipalities, absorbed some of the million-plus migrants allowed into the country in the past year.

    It has around 300 housed in the Orsoy district of town.

    A further 200 are set to arrive at the beginning of next month, one week before the start of the carnival season on February 8 across the whole Rhineland region.

    The city said in a statement it believed a 'problematic audience' would turn up 'who had chosen the parade because they think it will not be so closely controlled by police and security personnel.'

    To a lesser extent, officials said there were also concerns about traffic congestion because the main parade had been switched from a Sunday to Monday.

    Carnival is a tradition dating back to medieval times in the Rhineland area and other parts of Germany.

    It is a time of dressing up, heavy drinking, cabaret evenings – and the mass gatherings of people.

    In Dusseldorf, which has experienced Cologne like problems for over a year from a gang of North African youths, a million people are expected on the streets when festivities begin on February 8.

    In Rheinberg, authorities said they had run out of time to develop a new security plan in the wake of what happened in Cologne.

    'We're shocked. We've already ordered a lot of the stuff we needed, it's going to cost us,' said Paul van Holt, head of the organising committee.

    'We would've needed half a year to come up with a new security plan,' he added.

    Cologne and Dusseldorf, however, are adamant that the show must go on.

    A spokesman for the Carnival committee in Dusseldorf called Rheinberg's decision 'ridiculous.'

    'We'll celebrate the carnival just as we always have,' he said.

    'We haven't reworked our security concept,' said a spokesperson for the organising committee in Cologne.

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    Cologne Sex Attacks 'Good for Us,' Anti-Refugee Protesters Say

    Amid a backlash, Germany's government this week introduced tighter registration measures for the latest arrivals and tougher deportation rules for others.

    It may be too late. For the first time, a majority of Germans now doubt the country's policy on Europe's refugee crisis. A poll published Friday by public broadcaster ZDF found 60 percent of Germans now believe that the country cannot cope — up from 46 percent in December.

    Authorities have warned of suspicion toward migrants and refugees as they investigate a string of sexual assaults on women celebrating New Year's Eve in Cologne — alleged crimes that police said were committed mostly by men of "North African" background.

    Right-wing protesters carrying German flags and signs that read "Rapefugees not welcome" marched through the streets of Leipzig on Jan. 11. They were part of the anti-immigration Pegida movement, which started before the recent influx of migrants arrived but has increased its campaigning in recent months.

    "These Muslim refugees started an area-wide terror attack, a terror attack on German women, on blonde, white women," Tatjana Festerling, one of the leaders of anti-immigration Pegida movement, told the crowd from the stage amid shouting counter-protesters.

    Cologne Sex Attacks 'Good for Us,' Anti-Refugee Protesters Say

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