Police and media accused of cover-up to avoid stoking anti-immigrant feeling after witnesses say men who carried out attacks were of Arab appearanceA ferocious debate has erupted in Germany over the handling of mass sexual assaults and muggings carried out by groups of young males during New Year’s Eve celebrations in Cologne,amid accusations of a police and media cover-up over fears of whipping up anti-foreigner sentiment in the wake of the migrant crisis.
approximately 100 complaints bear now been made to police, two-thirds of which are linked to sexual assault, or including two rapes. According to police and witnesses,the perpetrators were of north African and Arab appearance, although neither the identity nor origin of any of them has so far been established.
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Source: theguardian.com