No offence, but dailymail links should be banned on HN. It's just a vile website that is full of BS on literally any topic it touches. Whatever gets them most clicks/sold newspapers, basically.
Okay, let's just censor news that you don't like. I on the other hand live in a EU country that is the main target for these refugees and I can tell you this stuff (in particular rapes) is real and you calling it BS isn't going to change the reality of what is going on here.
Daily Mail isn't news, it's poorly researched clickbait.
Rape is horrible and I'm certain immigrants also rape, just as the natives do. But let's not kid ourselves, at least in my home country Sweden the number of sexual offences (including rape) have not increased significantly over time despite decades of scaremongering news about them, including on swedish state tv.
Statistics is easily tweaked or faked. There are already many cases of police in Germany and Sweden miss-reporting or covering up sexual offences by immigrants.
Statistics can never simply be read from a police database or similar. It takes serious work by good researchers to compile the data and interpret it. This is also why you can't compare many crime statistics between countries, rape being a fairly typical one.
The simple truth is that up until now no one actually cared and that is why it went unreported. Heck, the new years eve sexual offences will probably disappear among all the other sexual offences that go on every day that no one apparently cares about.
Festival groping is hardly a new phenomenon, maybe the new years eve thing is new but was it a temporary problem or is it a long term issue? No one actually knows yet.
It is though. The definition of sexual offence changes between countries. Simplest example being that in some places public urination is a sexual offence, despite not having anything to do with sex. And because that definition is not consistent between countries, it cannot be reasonably compared.
>>n Sweden's case, it would also help if the race/nationality of the attacker was disclosed
And why would it be? What for? A rapist is a rapist, regardless of their nationality.
You sound like a tinfoil hat aficionado to me, sorry.
And at what point some time ago did you decide it's vile or do you check it out everyday to ensure your assessment is up-to-date? Get down to specifics and your statement ('it's just a vile ...) falls to bits.
So, I wonder, which articles from today's Mail go into your 'vile' category? Aside from the human interest stories (I have a surprise for you. It's not a mainline news source!) there are a few articles by agenda-driven columnists and you don't have to read them in either the right-leaning Mail or similar pieces in the left-leaning Guardian. Are those columnists the irritating source of your vitriol?