fri 08 jan 2016, 12:02

Ministry: 18 asylum seekers involved in violence

COLOGNE –

Certainly eighteen asylum seekers were more than a week ago involved in the assaults and robberies of women and girls, and for the station of Cologne. This has the German ministry of Home Affairs on Friday confirmed.

Inmiddels zijn twee verdachten aangehouden die betrokken zouden zijn geweest bij de aanrandingen en berovingen van talrijke vrouwen en meisje rond Nieuwjaar in het centrum van Keulen...

Meanwhile, two suspects arrested involved would have been assaults and robberies of numerous women and girl around the new year in the centre of Cologne…
Photo: EPA

A spokesman said that the federal justice department now 31 people have been identified who have a significant role in the violence have played. Eighteen of these suspects are asylum seekers.

Two men would, according to the German broadcaster WDR have been arrested. It comes to two men with a ‘migrant background’ which, in the acts of violence were present. With them is taxable footage found on their mobile phones. They also have some basic knowledge of German is captured. So there were, among others, the Arabic texts ‘beautiful breasts’, ‘I will kill you’ and ‘I want sex with you’ in German translated.

There are 170 tax returns done, of which 117 with respect to sexual assault.