GERMAN TOWN BANS MALE REFUGEES FROM PUBLIC SWIMMING POOL:

A spokesman for the local government of Bornheim said on Friday that the ban on male asylum seekers above the age of 18 came after six people filed complaints “over the sexually offensive behaviour of some migrant men at the pool”.

The measure aimed at “making it clear to the men that the rights of women in Germany is inviolable”, he added.

Borhheim officials are going so far as to try and teach young Muslim males proper swimming pool etiquette, and pools in Bavaria have produced pamphlets with “simple pictorial instructions on behaviour for migrants who may never have swum in public before.”

It’s impossible to gauge just how many unforeseen challenges like this Europe faces in trying to accommodate so many foreigners so quickly, or to guess at what point officials (and the public) might become overwhelmed.