MAJORITY OF SUSPECTS FOR NEW YEAR'S ATTACKS ARE REFUGEES?

Prosecution in the German city of Cologne today announced that the majority of suspects in a series of robberies and sexual assaults during the New Year's Eve in the city were refugees. The prosecutor Ulrich Bremer said he has so far been identified 73 suspects, of whom 12 are associated with sexual assaults, quoted the AP. He noted that recent media reports that only three suspects refugees "complete nonsense".

Bremer is the AP said that "the vast majority of suspects belong to the general category of refugees." Some of them have come to Germany, saying that they wanted to seek asylum, while others already filed official requests for asylum. Among the 15 suspects are already in custody is one asylum seeker from Morocco, who came to Germany in November. Total 1,075 criminal charges were filed, including 467 for the alleged sexual assault of any nature of the insult to the rape, on the occasion of a series of attacks carried out in Cologne during the New Year's Eve.

• 15 Feb, 2016
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