1000 Men Commit Mass Sex Assault In Cologne

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The mayor of Cologne has summoned police
for crisis talks after about 80 women
reported sexual assaults and muggings by
1,000 men on New Year’s Eve.
The scale of the attacks on women at the
city’s central railway station has shocked the
world.
About 1,000 drunk and aggressive young men
were involved.
City police chief Wolfgang Albers called it “a
completely new dimension of crime”.
The men were of Arab or North African
appearance, he said.
At least one woman was raped, and many
others were groped, including a volunteer
police woman.
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The police chief said “the assailants’
behaviour is a real concern for me, also
because of the carnival.”
Police were deployed outside the central
station because of the crowds on New Year’s
Eve, but failed to spot many of the attacks.
There are also fears that a number of women
did not report assaults.
Cologne Mayor Henriette Reker said the
attacks were monstrous, saying “we cannot
allow this to become a lawless area.”
One man described how his partner and 15-
year-old daughter were surrounded by an
enormous crowd outside the station and he
was unable to help.
“The attackers grabbed her and my partner’s
breasts and groped them between their legs.”
A British woman visiting Cologne said
fireworks had been thrown at her group by
men who spoke neither German nor English.
“They were trying to hug us, kiss us. One
man stole my friend’s bag,” she said.
“Another tried to get us into his ‘private taxi’.
I’ve been in scary and even life-threatening
situations and I’ve never experienced
anything like that.”
Germany saw a record influx of migrants in
2015, which provoked an intense debate on
immigration and marches by the anti-Islam
Pegida movement.
A police officer who was outside Cologne
station during the New Year’s Eve trouble
told the city’s Express news website that he
had detained eight suspects.
“They were all asylum seekers, carrying
copies of their residence certificates,” he
said.
However, there was no official confirmation
that asylum seekers had been involved in the
violence.
Similar attacks were reported in the cities of
Hamburg and Stuttgart.