Woman in Blue

Title: Woman in Blue

Author: Tania Kambouri

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789089756015

Condition: Good

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Description:
German policewoman Tania Kambouri was fed up. For the umpteenth time, she had been negatively confronted with her womanhood and her Greek origins. A Turkish migrant had pushed her aside, insulted her and cursed her. He only wanted to be helped by male police officers.

That same night, Kambouri, like a policewoman crying for help, wrote an urgent letter to her police union. 'What is the future of our country when migrants who break the law refuse to accept the rules in their new homeland? They cross more than one line: no respect for women, no respect for the police, no respect for the state we live in.'

The core of Kambouri's argument: the migrant problem could escalate completely. While more and more Germans complain that they no longer feel at home in their own country, Kambouri and her colleagues are exposed to verbal and physical violence by Muslims on an almost daily basis. But the police are reluctant to take action against the aggressive migrants. They remain silent for fear of being labelled as racist or even Nazi.

In Woman in Blue, Tania Kambouri describes her shocking experiences as a police officer. Her book is an alarm call for the police, politics and society. It touched a raw nerve and she received support from colleagues from all over the country. The media picked up on the storm of protests. The reactions were overwhelming and started a broad discussion.

(Excerpt) 'Let's name the violence, the name-calling, the contempt for women and minorities. I'd rather have an open visor than hypocrisy. [...] I want nothing more than respect!'

Hundreds of colleagues supported Tania Kambouri's urgent letter in which she criticizes a culture of 'looking away, repressing, ignoring'. In Woman in Blue she describes her experiences. With an exclusive foreword by Gerlof Leistra, crime journalist for Elsevier.

Tania Kambouri (1983) grew up in Bochum, Germany, in a family with Greek roots. As a police officer, she goes on patrol every day.