Post by mouse on Oct 30, 2016 8:38:23 GMT -5
Gang of 17 migrant men in horror sex attack on two women in church square
TWO women were sexually assaulted by up to 17 men, thought to be asylum seekers.
German police raced to the scene after the women were assaulted
The two women, aged 21 and 29, were in a church square in Freiburg, in south west Germany, when the mob struck.
Men described as African in appearance surrounded the pair then groped their breasts and genitals.
And when an innocent passerby tried to help the women, the gang then attacked him.
Police have arrested three Gambian men, two of whom have had their asylum applications rejected.
A police spokesman said: “The men touched the women inappropriately on their stomachs, chests, and genitals.
“Some of the men also tried to kiss the women. An man who wanted to help the women was physically attacked by the group.”
The traumatised victims managed to struggle free from their attackers and raise the alarm.
Police raced to the scene and made three arrests a short while later.
The suspects, aged 17, 19 and 20, are all Gambian nationals who arrived in Germany between November 2015 and February 2016.
The men have been released on police bail while investigations continue.
This latest sex attack occurred near the central railway station in Freiburg and was reminiscent of a spate of violent incidents last New Year's Eve in Cologne when women were sexually harassed and assaulted in the same way.
The shockwaves from the Cologne attacks are still being felt and only this week investigators from the North Rhine-Westphalia region called for talks with German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, parliamentary interior secretary and CDU politician Ole Schröder and the president of the Federal Police, Dieter Romann to ensure there are no repeats this year.
The New Year’s Eve assaults sparked a dramatic shift in public opinion which until then had been largely sympathetic to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door migrant policy which saw more than 1.1 million refugees flood into Germany.
The attacks led to widespread reform of the laws covering sex crimes and a huge drop in popularity for Mrs Merkel’s ruling CDU party at local elections in the autumn
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