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5. The New Year’s 2015/2016 Public Sexual Violence Debate in Germany: Media Discourse, Gendered Anti-Muslim Racism and Criminal Law

verfasst von : Ulrike M. Vieten

Erschienen in: Media, Crime and Racism

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Abstract

The New Year’s Eve 2015/2016 sexual attacks on non-migrant women in German public spaces near the main train stations in Cologne and Hamburg, but also in Stuttgart, have triggered far-right populist debates on the ‘integration and gender equality skills’ of new immigrants and North African male refugees, in Germany and elsewhere. This chapter discusses some of the national and international media coverage of the New Year's Eve 2015/2016 sexual attacks, and the political, legal and societal responses to it in the period January to July 2016. By this, it highlights institutional gendered anti-Muslim racism framing the perception of public sexual violence and moral panic.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Media, State and ‘Political Correctness’: The Racialisation of the Rotherham Child Sexual Abuse Scandal
Nächstes Kapitel Culture, Media and Everyday Practices: Unveiling and Challenging Islamophobia
Fußnoten
1
WIEN heute, kostenlose Tageszeitung, 12.7.2016; text means: ‘Sex attack in swimming pool on a girl of ten years—the uncle of the victim beat the Afghan.’
 
2
Writing in July 2016, it turned out only a minority of three men who have been traced by police were refugees; however the majority of attackers have been of Moroccan, Tunisian and Algerian background. http://​www.​independent.​co.​uk/​news/​world/​europe/​cologne-only-three-out-of-58-men-arrested-in-connection-with-mass-sex-attack-on-new-years-eve-are-a6874201.​html
 
10
Just put the word ‘domestic violence’ into an internet search engine (e.g. Google) on 10 August 2016 with 98,200,000 results in 0.43 seconds.
 
14
I am not going to focus on ‘domestic violence’ here.
 
15
Hannelore Kraft is the Social Democratic Minister of North Rhine Westphalia: http://​www.​n-tv.​de/​politik/​Kraft-entschuldigt-sich-bei-Silvester-Opfern-article18094201.​html
 
16
It might be worthwhile to mention that Spain and Poland were also involved whereas Germany (Chancellor Schroeder) was reluctant to join the ‘war of the willing,’ mainly because of the German history and a moral reluctant to engage in warfare. That said ‘morality’ seems not that much to matter when it comes to international warfare industry.
 
27
The study also covers ‘discrimination at the work place.’
 
30
‘Ein nicht unerheblicher Teil der angezeigten Taten ist wahrscheinlich—soweit nach den in den Medien bekannt gewordenen Details eine Einschätzung überhaupt möglich ist—nach geltendem Recht gar nicht strafbar, weil die Taten entweder überraschend erfolgten und daher kein Widerstand seitens der Täter überwunden werden musste oder aber die Taten gar nicht als „erheblich“i.S.d. Strafrechts eingeordnet werden.’ (Stellungnahme des DJB zur öffentlichen Anhörung des Ausschusses fuer Frauen, Gleichstellung und Emanzipation des Landtags Nordrhein Westphalen am 29.Juni 2016, Reform des Sexualstrafrechts).
 
31
‘[E]in qualifiziertes Nötigungsmittel, nämlich Gewalt, Drohung mit gegenwärtiger Gefahr für Leib und Leben oder das nötigende Ausnutzen einer schutzlosen Lage, in der das Opfer aufgrund der Schutzlosigkeit keinen Widerstand leistet’. Cited in Landtag Nordrheinwestphalen, 16. Wahlperiode (Vorlage 16/3733).
 
35
This kind of mass attack also happened in other European countries, in cities such as Zurich and Stockholm.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
The New Year’s 2015/2016 Public Sexual Violence Debate in Germany: Media Discourse, Gendered Anti-Muslim Racism and Criminal Law
verfasst von
Ulrike M. Vieten
Copyright-Jahr
2018
Buch
Media, Crime and Racism

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-71775-3

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-71776-0

Copyright-Jahr: 2018

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71776-0_5