New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany

When

31 Dec 2015

Kind

Event

Coordinates

50.94° N, 6.96° E

Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2015–16 New Year's Eve sexual assaults.

Mass sexual assaults mostly in Cologne and by North African men

During the 2015–2016 celebrations of New Year's Eve in several German cities, a large number of sexual assaults occurred. Approximately 1,200 women were reported to have been sexually assaulted, especially in the city of Cologne. In many of the incidents, while these women were in public spaces, they were surrounded and sexually assaulted by large groups of Muslim men of North African and Arab origin.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Sexuelle Übergriffe in der Silvesternacht 2015/16 führen deutschlandweit und über die Landesgrenzen hinaus zu Debatten”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Durant les célébrations du Nouvel An le 31 décembre 2015, une vague d’agressions sexuelles collectives, de vols”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Руководство Германии признало, что в новогоднюю ночь в Кёльне около 90 женщин подверглось попыткам ограбления и сексуальным домогательствам со стороны толпы…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ケルン大晦日集団性暴行事件。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page