The political elites and their families are not exempt from the catastrophe they have brought upon Europe. Maria Ladenburger was a casualty of policies that her father almost certainly supported and probably still supports. Her death ought to be the occasion for some serious soul-searching among those elites, and a thorough reevaluation of the policies that have allowed the entry into Europe of untold numbers of young Muslim men who think that non-Muslim women exist for their sexual use. But it probably will not be.

“Daughter of top EU official raped and murdered in Germany – Afghan migrant admits killing,” by Rob Virtue, Allan Hall and Monika Pallenberg, Express, December 4, 2016: