ANDERSON: And just before 5 to 5:00 in London. This is Connect the World with me Becky Anderson. And you're watching CNN. Welcome back. Throughout the hour, we have been talking about the hardening attitudes across Europe towards refugees. Some critics of Germany's open door policy seem to become more vocal after the New Year's Eve attacks on women in Cologne. A former Cologne police officer has an insider's perspective on what happened that night and how his country should respond. Atika Shubert has the story.</s>ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: For 11 years, Nick Hain was a cop with Germany's federal police. He spent three patrolling the streets of cologne. Last year he put his career on hold to pursue his dream of becoming mixed martial arts fighter, but when he saw these social media videos of the New Year's Eve chaos, an apparent mass assaults at Cologne's train station, he decided to speak out when many of his former police colleagues could not.</s>NICK HAIN, FRM. GERMAN FEDERAL POLICEMAN: I always said it's kind of a civil war on New Year's Eve when you go.</s>SHUBERT: Nick took us around his old beat, Cologne's train station, for years a notorious hunting ground for pick pocket gangs. Nick knows by name many of the Moroccan and Algerian pick pockets that target the station. But he says they represent a small criminal minority in a vast majority of law abiding refugees.</s>HAIN: They are a minority. And it's important that people know that this minority causes immense problems since a long time ago.</s>SHUBERT: Crime is not new, he says. But the numbers have increased along with the surge in refugee arrivals, he says, overwhelming police resources.</s>HAIN: We are losing trust to the public, you know. Now, when they go through the train station people eyeballing them, like showing them, like, you know, you should have been helping us that night.</s>ANDERSON: We're getting news of an active shooter in The States. I want to get you to our colleagues in the U.S.
Fmr. German Policeman Speaks Out About New Year's Eve Attacks. Aired 11:00a-12:00p ET