Gradually the extent of sexual assaults on women in the New Year's Eve at Cologne Central Station is clear. Investigators from over 40 different offenders. 30 victims have already filed charges. Druckenper mail Cologne. The police have an investigation team set up to investigate the sexual assaults on women in the New Year's Eve around the main train station. More than 30 victims have already filed a complaint with the police. According to information of the "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger" go the investigators from over 40 different perpetrators, but among themselves know them. To date, however, was still not reliably identified, even arrests did not exist before.
The perpetrators should involve police known young men who commit in downtown and in the Amüsiervierteln as the Zülpicher Road bags and trick thefts and robberies in many months. Victims and witnesses spoke of the police towards the North African male appearance.
MORE ON THIS Symbolic picture. SEXUAL HARASSMENT New Year's Eve Women in Cologne Central Station harassed massively But in the early hours of Friday they should not have occurred as usual alone or in pairs, but in a large group. In the field Alter Wartesaal / Hauptbahnhof / Domplatte they are offended women ill, she taunted, have surrounded and robbed.
When "Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger" volunteered the day after a 22-year-old, describing the perpetrators would she and her friend massively physically harassed and sexually harassed. The other victims were supposed to be the same experience. It succeeded the robbers, hiding in the crowd before police were able to track her down.
Rumors in Internet forums, according to which it is to be the perpetrators were refugees, the police refused on request. An investigator said: "The recent hints go significantly towards police known offenders, refugees have nothing to do."
Video recordings are evaluated
To clarify the actions and Tatzusammenhänge video recordings are to be evaluated. Other victims who have stayed in the New Year's Eve at the train station and the cathedral in the period between midnight and four clock and have to refund any display are kindly asked to contact the police.