Mr Moose
What the hell are we supposed to tell the kids?
Comparing London and Cologne only make the Cologne events look worse - London has ten times the population and loads of people visit for NYE.
In theory men from countries where women aren't as respected, especially women who dress in clothing that doesn't cover everything, would be more of an assault risk, but I have to say that I've never noticed tons of hassle from the Bengalis in my area, where they are a majority, or noticed anything odd (in body language or comments) about any of my Syrian or ME male students. So this mass attack is extra confusing to me.
Tbh many men particularly intoxicated can quickly coalesce into this type of group behaviour. I remember many years ago in Trafalgar Sq loads of blokes trying to snog my then girlfriend with the situation soon becoming uncomfortable for us both and we slunk off to the side streets.
I doubt these men really planned as much as is made out. They just planned to get together and act up a bit.
Women are really at the bottom though aren't they? First concern appears to be with people who weren't either the perps or the victims. I get why and the racism should be opposed vehemently, but first consideration should be about educating all men.