10 years after Cologne: Researcher warns in opposition to concentrate on origin and speaks of “radically uprooted masculinity” | EUROtoday

From the angle of Hamburg police researcher Rafael Behr, when assessing the occasions of New Year’s Eve in Cologne ten years in the past, it isn’t sufficient to have a look at the nationalities of the criminals. From a criminological perspective, origins from the Arab or North African area alone are “not a criminogenic factor,” stated the previous professor of police science on the University of Applied Sciences of the Hamburg Police Academy on Wednesday within the WDR5 “Morgenecho”. “I would sum it up in a radically uprooted masculinity that we were confronted with.”

Terms corresponding to North African intensive offenders, “Nafris”, or different collective attributions slender the view, warned Behr. There is a stronger clarification behind it “if we assume masculinity as the motive and not nationality”.

The migrants and refugees endured existential fears and have been then transferred to a society “in which they are not allowed to do anything and do not even have the prospect of being allowed to stay here”.

Analyzes by the police and violence researchers indicated that one thing was being compensated for in and round the principle prepare station that evening that “exploded explosively and was not strategic and planned and as a fight against the state or the police.”

Learning course of after a failed deployment technique

From the police researcher’s viewpoint, Cologne New Year’s Eve 2015/16 doesn’t play a novel position within the consciousness of the German police. But the police additionally realized from this main occasion.

The accusation in opposition to the Cologne operations administration of not reacting shortly sufficient that evening and never calling in all of the reserves from North Rhine-Westphalia moved and shocked the police very a lot, stated Behr and speaks of a studying course of.

Behr emphasised that there have been intensive investigations in 2017, together with throughout the police. Staff departments examined your complete complicated with the participation of scientific experience. Violence researchers, cultural mediators and people affected themselves have been interviewed. Many stereotypes and prejudices may have been thrown overboard. “And I am very grateful that the police have finally taken a step towards reflexivity and into what is then called error culture.”