Cologne sex attacks ‘a matter of public order and not related to the refugee crisis’ – EU Commission
RT.com
30 Jan, 2016
Frans Timmermans, vice-president of the European Commission, doesn`t see any link between mass sex assaults on New Year’s Eve in Cologne and the ongoing refugee crisis, internal minutes has revealed. He also lamented the reintroduction of internal border checks within the Schengen zone.
The Commission’s members call for “unconditional rejection of false association between certain criminal acts such as the attacks on women in Cologne on New Year`s Eve, and the mass influx of refugees”, as the minutes of the body`s meeting from January 13, suggest.
Mass sex assaults that saw groups of people, presumably of North African and Middle East origin, harass and rob roughly 1000 women in the German city of Cologne on New Year`s Eve drew special attention to the issue of integration of migrants from war-torn countries into the European community.
More than 800 complaints were filed with the police in the aftermath of the events, with about 500 of them related to offences of sexual nature.
Ralf Jager, interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia, confirmed the majority of the 52 suspects identified were not German citizens. Twenty-five were from Morocco and Algeria, 15 arrived in Germany as asylum-seekers and 11 perpetrators were staying in the country illegally.
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