Police in Cologne has at least sixty returns ingested by women at the celebration of New Year's immoral fondled and robbed were a large group of boys and men. Certainly one woman claims to have been raped. According to the women and eyewitnesses, the attackers were from Arab and North African Orgine.
The police called the assault on such a large scale of the women Monday at a news conference "a totally new dimension of criminality."
The dozens of women say they have been harassed in the vicinity of the Cologne Central Station, next to the famous cathedral city. Police Wolfgang Albers said that it was a group of a thousand men.
"It is unacceptable that such crimes are committed in the middle of the city," said Albers. The police assumes that there are many more victims. It is hoped that they report yet and file a report.
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At least a quarter of the sixty women was about sexual offenses. "It can not be that visitors from Cologne are attacked in this way," said Mayor Henriette Reker. "We can not tolerate such a legal vacuum."
Up to now, no one has been picked up. Police were reviewing images from street cameras in the area. The police union GDP, said he was shocked by the mass assault.
The group of boys and men, ranging in age from 15 to 35 years, threw on New Year's Eve fireworks at passersby. Then they were dispersed by the police. In the hours that they would have assaulted the girls and women. Some victims they were surrounded by twenty to forty boys and men. Many offenders were drunk.
Volkskrant.nl/ © AFP
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