Representatives of the city of Cologne of Justice and the Federal Police consider Tuesday about the assaults that took place during New German cathedral city. The authorities were given until now more than sixty declaration, of which a quarter of sexual offenses.
Also on the square outside the station in Cologne gathered on New Year's Eve a group of a thousand men. Forty of them are guilty of crimes. They operated in groups and encompassed women who walked across the square. The men were under police between 15 and 35 years old, and from Arab and North African descent. Many men would have been drunk.
Actions
The police called the assault on such a large scale of the women Monday at a news conference "a totally new dimension of criminality."
Although the Cologne police after the first reports about one o'clock in the morning more than 140 people sent to the station and there were already about seventy federal police officers present, which could not offset the huge group of men that had gathered there. Henriette Reker mayor has announced that he will track down the perpetrators anyway.
On Sunday night, five people were arrested at the same station as they groped and travelers robbed women. It is not clear whether they have anything to do with the events during New Year's Eve.
Minister Ralf Jäger of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia said the city in any case to be supported, according to the magazine Die Zeit. Against the German television WDR, he said, "We do not allow that North African men organize themselves in order to humiliate defenseless women with sexual miss."
Police Wolfgang Albers takes measures to prevent such incidents may occur again. The police will take extra measures during Carnival, which takes place in early February
Volkskrant.nl/ © Reuters
Reactie plaatsen
Reacties