Article states, "Carnival is a tradition dating back to medieval times in the Rhineland area and other parts of Germany." , but it's now being cancelled because of fears over how refugees might behave. The worst part is the Germans have brought this on themselves.
"A German town has cancelled its annual carnival scheduled for next month over fears of Cologne-style sex assaults on women.
Rheinberg, which is near the Rhine metropolis, said it 'cannot rule out' the possibility of drunken refugees coming into town to prey on women.
Cologne police are dealing with over 500 complaints of sexual assault and robbery against young women by gangs of marauding asylum seekers in the city on New Year's Eve.
Other similar attacks also took place on a smaller scale in several other German cities, including Hamburg and Bielefeld.
Rheinberg has, like most German municipalities, absorbed some of the million-plus migrants allowed into the country in the past year.
It has around 300 housed in the Orsoy district of town.
A further 200 are set to arrive at the beginning of next month, one week before the start of the carnival season on February 8 across the whole Rhineland region.
The city said in a statement it believed a 'problematic audience' would turn up 'who had chosen the parade because they think it will not be so closely controlled by police and security personnel."
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