The Mayor of Cologne, Germany, has said that women must adopt a “code of conduct” if they do not wish to be raped in a crisis meeting following the mass-rape of women by 1,000 men on New Year’s eve. Mayor Herniette Reker’s shocking remarks were made during a meeting with Chief of Police Wolfgang Albers and Wolfgang Wurm. During the meeting they discussed how Germany should deal with the attacks, in which dozens of women were repeatedly raped in the town center. Independent.co.uk reports: “It is important to prevent such incidents from ever happening again,” said Mayor Reker, as reported in German by RP Online. “We have heard by now that they [the attacks] have occurred in other cities. This of course is not comforting to us.” Hamburg also received complaints of sexual assault. The crisis management team said prevention measures should include a code of conduct for young women and girls, and Mayor Reker said the existing code of conduct will be updated online. 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 [...]