Germany stunned by rash of New Year’s sex assaults

Below you will find a roughly-translated article where the same not only happened in Cologne, but also in Hamburg and Stuttgart.

Für die die auf Deutsch lesen können oder will, der originaler Artikel steht ganz unten.

 

Berlin (AFP) – The German government Tuesday condemned dozens of apparently coordinated sexual assaults against women on New Year’s Eve in the western city of Cologne blamed on Arab men but warned against anti-migrant scapegoating.

Justice Minister Heiko Mass called for a thorough investigation of the rash of attacks, ranging from groping to at least one reported rape, allegedly committed in a large crowd of revellers during year-end festivities at the city’s main train station.

“This represents a new dimension of crime that we will have to get to grips with,” he told reporters, adding that the assaults had appeared to be “coordinated”.