Reuters, 05/01 16:05 CET
By Madeline Chambers
BERLIN (Reuters) – About 90
women have reported being robbed, threatened or sexually molested at the
New Year’s celebrations outside Cologne’s cathedral by young, mostly
drunk, men, police said on Tuesday. One woman said she was raped.
Police and witnesses have said about 1,000 men, split
into groups, attacked women in the square. Some witnesses said the men
were of North African appearance, stirring strong emotions in Germany
where Chancellor Angela Merkel has welcomed people fleeing war zones in
the Middle East and Africa.
While politicians urged people not to place refugees
under blanket suspicion, the incident, described by Cologne police as a
“new dimension of crime”, fueled calls from right-wing groups to halt
admissions of migrants. Germany took in just over a million last year,
far more than any other European country.
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Source: Euronews
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