DANIEL HANNAN: Multicultural appeasement in Cologne.

Ralf Jaeger is the interior minister for North Rhine-Westphalia, where the worst attacks happened. . . .

“What happens on the right-wing platforms and in chatrooms is at least as awful as the acts of those assaulting the women,” he said. . . .

How did the police, in their public statement, summarize those monstrous events? “Ausgelassene Stimmung” — “Exuberant mood.” I suppose that’s one way of putting it.

In the days that followed, details began to leak out online. . . . Germany’s police, politicians and pundits said nothing. The state broadcaster ZDF willfully ignored the story, later admitting that it didn’t want “to spread a bad mood.”

The mayor of Cologne, Henriette Reker, who has campaigned vocally for refugees, told her female constituents that it was up to them to keep men at arm’s length when walking in public. Meanwhile, German MPs pushed ahead with a law to ban hate speech against migrants.

(Earlier: Mayor of Cologne condemned for urging women to ‘keep men at arm’s length’ in new code of conduct to prevent assaults.)

Hannan spends the second half of his article congratulating the UK for not having Germany’s problem. He leaves out any discussion of the mass rape, sexual assault, and pimping of young British girls by Pakistanis in Rotherham and elsewhere, which the authorities covered up because of the races of the perpetrators and of the victims. Call it “multicultural appeasement” if you want, but that just seems like a euphemism for anti-white hatred.

Hannan also writes, “The idea that there are no-go areas in our cities is a fantasy of Donald Trump’s.” Judge for yourself: European ‘No-Go’ Zones: Fact or Fiction? Part 2: Britain.