Cologne police received 22 complaints of sexual assault on the first day of the annual street carnival in the German city - double the amount last time year.Around 190 people reportedly in the custody of the authorities and called 'cross-section of the general public' .security where increased to double the number of officers on duty, after hundreds of alleged attacks and robberies on the eve of the New Year.
Many women said they were groped and robbed a mob of African and Arab men mostly from the north during the welcome party in 2016.The most recent allegations of sexual insults case alleged groping rape.reporter live at the chamber of unidentified person.
There are about 4,000 officers on duty to try to prevent a repeat of New Year Eva incidents.Last year, there were 10 such criminal complaint on the first day of festival.A police spokesman put the T- raise public awareness to increase after the uproar over sex attacks in the city on 31 December.
Dorothee Goebel said 'The way people change file criminal complaints from New Year's Eve, and so well,' said .Police on average, is about 50 sex crimes reported each year during carnival week.
social workers migrant holding workshops to explain to them what is and is not acceptable behavior within the tax Germany.City received more than 1,000 criminal charges for incidents on the eve of the New Year, including 446 allegations of sexual assault, through rape.
Fifty people are being prosecuted on charges of Eve and as a result of ongoing discussion on the increase in asylum seekers - previously generally well received by the Germans - with air many concerns about the number growing.
Nearly 1.1 million immigrants and refugees came to Germany in 2015, and nearly 91,000 asylum seekers arrived in Germany last month.
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