TE20160109 by MrDi

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Language: eng
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Tags: News, The Economist
Publisher: The Economist
Published: 2016-01-07T19:17:33.414505+00:00

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Sexual assaults in Cologne

New year, new fear

Attacks on women by mobs of young men inflame Germany’s refugee debate

Jan 9th 2016 | BERLIN | From the print edition

AS THE New Year’s fireworks went up in German cities, a brief panic seized Munich, which had information about planned terrorist attacks at two railway stations. Those never occurred. But, much less noticed at first, a different sort of crime was occurring in Cologne and, to a lesser extent, in Hamburg and Stuttgart.

While partiers gathered on the square between Cologne’s cathedral and railway station, a large group of young men, later described by the police as “looking North African or Arabic”, also massed there. Some threw fireworks into the crowd to cause panic. Then the men formed rings around individual women, so that police and onlookers could not see inside each huddle. According to over 100 women who subsequently filed complaints, the men groped the women sexually, while others stole their mobile phones, wallets or purses. One woman was raped.

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