Muslim refugees in Germany are running amok, attacking and raping German women in at least three cities—Cologne Hamburg and Stuttgart—reports coming out of the country said.

The mass sexual assault on German women by Arab and North African males started during New Year's celebrations, WND reported, adding that public outrage is mounting over the reports.

Adding fuel to the public anger were the reports that German security officials have allegedly been told by higher authorities to cover up the crimes committed by the refugees to avoid spreading panic among the population.

On Tuesday, hundreds of women protested against the attacks in Cologne and preparations are underway for a major protest by the anti-Islamisation protest movement PEGIDA this weekend.

Despite the public outcry against the crimes committed by Muslim refugees, German government officials appeared hesitant to pin the blame on the mainly male newcomers from Muslim countries.

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas was quoted as saying, "It doesn't matter where someone comes from, it matters what they did and that we can prove it."

The Green Party's Claudia Roth even warned citizens against blaming the migrants for the crimes.

Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker even appeared to blame the victimised German women instead of their Muslim attackers, calling on the women to stay "one arm's length" away from strangers. This particular suggestion was met with mockery by Germans on social media, WND reported.

The populist Alternative for Germany party, which opposes Chancellor Angela Merkel's plan to bring hundreds of thousands of Muslim migrants into the country, called the Muslim attacks "unacceptable."

U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump weighed in on the issue, calling the incident a "disaster" on his Twitter account.

Pamela Geller, a WND columnist and a leading American activist against Islamisation, accused Merkel and her allies in government as those responsible for attacks on their fellow Germans.

"German authorities have not done a thing to try to vet the migrants (which would be impossible anyway), and have not made any efforts to compel them to assimilate," Geller told WND.

"Merkel and all Western authorities have been and still are in complete denial about Islam, both regarding its teachings of jihad and regarding its treatment of women, including the Quran's allowance for the abduction and sexual enslavement of non-Muslim women. When Muslims then behave as they're told to behave in the Quran, Merkel has only herself to blame," Geller said.

Conservative commentator Diana West joined in blasting Merkel.

"History should remember Angela Merkel as the German chancellor who imported Tahrir Square into Germany," she said, referring to the public town square in downtown Cairo in Egypt.

"'Mama' Merkel created the conditions for these attacks by quite literally inviting hundreds of thousands of mainly Muslim men into Europe," West added.