[Newsbot]

Title: German rail operator launches women-only train carriages following sex attacks
Category: World
Posted By: N_Fiddledog
Date: 2016-03-31 10:35:01

[N_Fiddledog]

It's blocked to the soft ware but you can get here.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/03 ... s-followi/

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German rail operator launches women-only train carriages following sex attacks



German train operator has announced it is introducing a women-only carriage on its trains following several violent sex attacks.

Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn will introduce the option for women passengers on the Leipzig to Chemnitz line, positioning the carriages next to the train conductor.

“The local proximity to the customer service representative is chosen deliberately,” a Mitteldeutsche Regiobahn spokesman said.

The carriages are designed to make solo female travellers or women with young children feel safer on trains.

Boys up to the age of ten will also be allowed to ride in the special carriages.

There were several sex attacks against women in Germany on New Year's Eve, widely blamed on migrants who had recently arrived in the country.

In Cologne, a crowd of some 1,000 men “of North African or Arab appearance” was able to mass around the city’s main train station, with roving gangs allegedly assaulting dozens of women with impunity.

Crowds of people outside Cologne Main Station in Cologne on New Year's Eve
Crowds of people outside Cologne Main Station in Cologne on New Year's Eve CREDIT: EPA
Last week, German authorities brought the first sexual assault charge stemming from the New Year's Eve mob violence against an Algerian man.

The 26-year-old suspect is believed to have groped a woman while he and around ten other men surrounded her at the city's main train station, a spokesman for the Cologne administrative court told AFP.

"The first sexual assault charge has now been filed," the spokesman said, nearly three months after the events that inflamed public debate about a huge influx of refugees and migrants to Germany.

Prosecutors received more than 1,100 criminal complaints over incidents on New Year's Eve in Germany's fourth biggest city, including over 480 accusations of sexual assault, news agency DPA reported.

Most of the 120 suspects are from Algeria or Morocco, including recent arrivals and men who have been in Germany for years.

Only three people have been convicted in the ensuing months, for theft, and the city's police chief conceded in February that most perpetrators may never be caught.

The attacks fanned tensions in Germany, which took in nearly 1.1 million asylum seekers in 2015, mainly from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and put intense pressure on Chancellor Angela Merkel for her welcoming stance toward refugees fleeing war.

Far-right groups railed against "sex jihadists" and "rapefugees" in street rallies and the events were seen as pivotal in delivering strong results to a populist anti-migrant party, the AfD, in three state elections this month.

Women-only carriages are very common across much of Asia. The last women-only carriage in Britain was removed in 1977.

[Thanos]

I read this earlier. The feminists are actually freaking out about it because they think it means they're being segregated as second-class citizens. "No, we're doing it to protect you from getting attacked by maniacs. Liar! Liar! This is patriarchy! How do we know these trains aren't taking us to a special camp somewhere?!?!?!?".

I'm not kidding. That's exactly how the conversation in the comment section went. I nearly gave up altogether then. It the left is going to be that deliberately stupid in regards to a perfectly sensible measure to ensure women's safety then what's the point of any of it anymore? If that's what liberals and lefties think then there was absolutely no point behind any of the wars that were waged to protect the weak & helpless from the strong or the insane. Seriously, I thought then that I should look up the address of the nearest mosque and go to it to sign up with the other side. At least, as rotten and evil as they are, they're not infected with this kind of thinking.

[Strutz]

FFS, it's awful that it has come to this so soon and that it would even be necessary.

IMO, if I was there and had experienced, or had other women I knew experience, that level of harassment damn right I would ride in that car. No question.

Let's see if providing this service actually works and that no "groups" put up a fuss about it being a segregation type thing.

[andyt]

women only passenger cars:

Hai, we have in Japan, many years.

Oy vey, Israel had segregated buses until 2011.

Arriba Arriba - Mexico since 2008

Brazil, 2006 pra caramba.

All because Islam. The horror.

[N_Fiddledog]

andyt andyt:

women only passenger cars:

Hai, we have in Japan, many years.

Oy vey, Israel had segregated buses until 2011.

Arriba Arriba - Mexico since 2008

Brazil, 2006 pra caramba.

All because Islam. The horror.

Now let's take "stuff he didn't tell you," for 500 Alec...

There's always a reason for these sex segregated transportation services. They aren't always the same.

In Israel the sex-segregated service was offered by one particular line called Mehadrin Bus lines. It went through areas populated mostly by Haredi or ultra orthodox religions. Women sat in the back. They entered and exited from the rear of the bus. Men from the front. Modest dress was usually required. "In January 2011, the Israeli High Court of Justice ruled that gender segregation was unlawful and abolished the "mehadrin" public buses."

Most recently though the reason involves some sort of wide-spread regional instance of sexual assault. The danger levels of the most common styles of attack can vary from culture to culture, region to region.

In Japan two-thirds of female passengers in their 20s and 30s reported that they had been groped on trains, and the majority had been victimized frequently.

You forgot to mention India, Andy. Throughout South Asia there's this thing they call "Eve teasing."

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Eve teasing usually occurs in public spaces, streets, and public transport.[11] The feminist publication Rethinking Violence Against Women referred to this behavior as a kind of "little rape".[12] Some guidebooks to the region warn female tourists to avoid attracting the attention of these kinds of men by wearing conservative clothing.[13][14] However, this harassment is reported both by Indian women and by conservatively dressed foreign women

You also forgot to mention Egypt: the birthplace of the sex assault game "taharrush gamea." There's been sex-segregated transportation there.

Also Iran, Indonesia, and Malasia.

And now in Europe they're also talking sex-segregated transportation. The specific reason given in this case is protection from Rapefugee style sex attacks.

I'm sorry, what was your point again?

[Thanos]

N_Fiddledog N_Fiddledog:

I'm sorry, what was your point again?

Hurt Muslim male feelings >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> women's safety?

[martin14]

Strutz Strutz:

FFS, it's awful that it has come to this so soon and that it would even be necessary.

IMO, if I was there and had experienced, or had other women I knew experience, that level of harassment damn right I would ride in that car. No question.

Let's see if providing this service actually works and that no "groups" put up a fuss about it being a segregation type thing.

Don't worry, they already have.

Coming soon to Toronto, then Vancouver.

[xerxes]

Half of these are dirty old white men.

https://translinkharassment.wordpress.com/

[martin14]

xerxes xerxes:

Half of these are dirty old white men.

https://translinkharassment.wordpress.com/

As usual, your racists slurs have no basis in reality.

Post your stats.