Every fifth prison inmate in Saxony is a foreigner
Posted on | February 5, 2016 | No Comments
European media face new scrutiny of reporting on immigration and crime
Malmö, Sweden – The headlines would not have been so blunt just a few months ago: “Every fifth prison inmate in Saxony is a foreigner,” the German newspaper Dresdner Morgen announced. “If there was an opinion corridor [a range of acceptable public opinions], it has now been thoroughly demolished,” noted a columnist in the Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. The mass sexual harassment and pickpocketing that took place on New Year’s Eve in Cologne, Germany, has changed the tone of reporting on immigrant-related issues. As news of the attacks spread days later, so too did awareness that both police and media had been reluctant to connect the crimes with the “North African” and “foreign-looking” men described
The Christian Science Monitor
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