Three Syrians have been arrested in southern Germany for the alleged gang rape of two teenage girls on New Year’s Eve. A 21-year-old man and two 14-year-old boys are being held in Weil am Rhein, a small town near the Swiss and German borders, for the alleged rape of two girls aged 14 and 15.
Prosecutors allege that the two girls were held for several hours and gang-raped after attending a New Year celebration at the home of the 21-year-old man in the nearby village of Friedlingen.
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Read the full story at The Guardian, by Justin Huggler, Cologne
Reports of sexual assaults on women across European cities, including Cologne, Hamburg, Zürich, Salzburg, Helsinki during NYE festivities. This is a collective thread for these incidents which are being reported as possibly coordinated and having been committed by groups of male immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa.
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Additional reports have come in from:
- Frankfurt: Several women have reported New Year sexual assaults to police
- Hamburg: At least 53 cases of harassment, of which 39 are of sexual harassment, have been reported
- Helsinki: 3 reported sexual assaults on women
- Zürich: A total of about 6 women now say they were sexually assaulted
- Salzburg: Several women in the Austrian city of Salzburg have said they were sexually assaulted on New Year’s Eve
- Cologne: More than 120 sexual assaults, rapes and robberies have been reported outside the city’s railway station and Cathedral
Latest reports:
- Police in Cologne ‘struggled to gain control during mass sexual assaults’
- Reports: Cologne NYE assaulters were largely asylum-seekers
- Cologne New Year’s attackers could face deportation, German official says
- German Muslims Condemn Cologne Attacks, Fear Consequences
- Cologne Divided Over Who to Blame for New Year’s Assaults
- Reports of New Year’s Eve sex assaults in Cologne fuel German migrant debate
- Cologne New Year gang assaults: Victim, 18, says up to 30 men groped and robbed her and her 11 friends
- German officials say that a series of sexual assaults and thefts that took place during New Year’s Eve celebrations in the western city of Cologne were likely part of a coordinated effort by a criminal gang.
- Zurich police investigate New Year sexual assaults, no link to German cases
- Mayor of Cologne lambasted for telling women to keep men at arm’s length
