Crime

Media reports: 900 sexual offences in the new year’s eve

Cologne was just the tip of the iceberg. In the case of the Attacks on women in the new year’s eve night, there has been in Germany nearly 900 sexual offences with more than 1200 Victims.

Only 120 Suspects had been identified, a balance sheet of the Federal criminal police office (BKA), the research composite of the “Süddeutscher Zeitung” and the broadcasters NDR and WDR reports. BKA President Holger Münch is quoted with the words: “We must assume that
many of these acts, not the averages in the aftermath of the chosen one.”

As it was, according to the BKA, a new crime phenomenon, had been collected all the data to Attacks by groups in the public space in the new year’s eve Central. Because it went to Assault in groups, were involved, according to estimates, more than 2000 men to the deeds.

BKA: connection with immigration

Most of these are originate from North Africa, Syrians are not, in effect, become conspicuous. According to the BKA, about half of the suspects had only been a short time in Germany, so less than a year. BKA-President Münch said: “in this respect
there is already a connection between the Occurrence of the phenomenon and the strong immigration in 2015.”

In the case of some offences, several women have been affected. The BKA came to the number of more than 1200 Victims of sexual Assault: around 650 in Cologne, more than 400 in Hamburg and the other in Stuttgart, Düsseldorf and other places.

So far, there had been nationwide, only four convictions to these sexual offences. In the case of the 120 identified Suspect, the suspicion was only vague. The investigation would be hampered by the fact that there of the affected women, it was hardly meaningful descriptions of the perpetrators.

uh/jj (dpa, epd)