Fail to see how the suggested "code of conduct" would have helped. The victims' weren't the ones doing any approaching.
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The suggested code of conduct includes maintaining an arm’s length distance from strangers, to stick within your own group, to ask bystanders for help or to intervene as a witness, or to inform the police if you are the victim of such an assault.
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Women reported being tightly surrounded by groups of men who harassed and mugged them. Some people threw fireworks into the crowds, adding to the chaos.
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One of the victims, identified only as Katja L, told the Kölner Express: “When we came out of the station, we were very surprised by the group we met, which was made up only of foreign men … We walked through the group of men, there was a tunnel through them, we walked through … I was groped everywhere. It was a nightmare. Although we shouted and hit them, they men didn’t stop.
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The problems aren't with migration in general, just those from certain countries and/or of certain types. Eg those from places Australia, Japan, US, Spain are not that much of those sort of problems.
Whether they weren't all "newly-arrived refugees" or not, is irrelevant, there would have been less recent arrivals and the newer ones ganged up alongside them. Adding more isn't going to help stop it.