(Sunday Express) --- A TEENAGE girl was surrounded and
attacked in a swimming pool in the latest of a series shocking sex
assaults emerging from Germany.
Police said they have detained migrants in three more cases - one of
which was traced to an asylum centre.
It comes as legal programmes have been launched for migrants,
addressing areas of sexual equality and freedom of speech.
The classes, launched in Bavaria, are voluntary, and officials say
they were planned before widespread assaults on women were revealed.
Tensions in the country are at breaking point as protests and
counter-protests over the New Year’s Eve attacks in Kӧln spark
riots.
Yesterday, a masked group of 200 barricaded buildings and smashed
shop windows as they demanded action from authorities in the city of
Leipzig.
And vigilante groups have attacked foreign migrants as 'revenge' for
the sex assaults.
Three teenagers aged 15 from Syria have been arrested for rape after
a 17-year-old girl was attacked in a public swimming pool in Munich
on Saturday.
The trio allegedly surrounded the teen, with one of the boys groping
her under her swimming costume and penetrating her, making the sex
attack rape under German law.
The girl's sister was also allegedly groped before they managed to
flee to a lifeguard who called the police.
Because the asylum seekers were only 15, they were not remanded in
custody and were released, and will be prosecuted under juvenile law.
Officers have also made an arrest for rape and attempted murder after
a 24-year-old woman was attacked on Christmas Eve.
The alleged attacker, aged 20 from Morocco, was traced to an asylum
seeker centre.
During the attack outside a cemetery in Gelsenkirchen the woman was
approached from behind and beaten unconscious before being dragged
into a cemetery and raped.
Violence against women is always despicable and criminal, and it
is a great shame that this has been shown to be a case where the
alleged attacker is from the ranks of the asylum seekers, who only a
short time before were welcomed into our community here
Mayor
Frank Baranowski
Local mayor Frank Baranowski said: "Violence against women is
always despicable and criminal, and it is a great shame that this has
been shown to be a case where the alleged attacker is from the ranks
of the asylum seekers, who only a short time before were welcomed
into our community here in Gelsenkirchen.
“This is not only a gross disregard for hospitality but also
inhumane.
"This person will not only face the consequences of his actions
if convicted, but also he has done severe damage to all those others
who have fled their homes and will now be tainted because of what he
has done."
Police said the man arrested was apparently a member of the
"Casablanca" band, identified as a group of thousands of
North Africans who have been committing crimes in North
Rhine-Westphalia to an enormous degree in the last six months
particularly.
He will also face attempted murder charges because the injuries the
woman received were so severe that she almost died.
Another attack on a 15-year-old girl was reported by police,
involving an unregistered asylum seeker who had been given
accommodation in Burghausen.
A
police spokesman said that the schoolgirl was on her way home when a
heavily intoxicated Afghan teenager asked if he could kiss her.
When she refused and tried to get away, he grabbed her hand and tried
to kiss that.
She managed to break free but he then chased and grabbed her with
both hands.
She was reportedly assaulted and a 26-year-old local managed to
intervene and chase him off.
The alleged assailant was arrested a short while later.
The legal lessons for migrants are being initiated by Bavaria's
justice ministry.
The minister in charge, Winfried Bausback, who taught parts of the
first legal education class in the town of Ansbach on Monday, said
it's important to give newcomers an early "understanding of our
basic values."
He added: "Many asylum seekers come from regions where
justice doesn't function or is being abused by dictatorships."
A
quote from an educational film they show newcomers includes the
message: "Germany is an attractive country because it respects
the dignity of every human being - and it is supposed to stay that
way."
Protests have been taking place across Germany since multiple girls
were attacked on New Year's Eve in Cologne and other areas.
Women took to the streets of Kӧln earlier in the week after it
emerged there were over 100 reports of sex assaults in the city on
New Year's Eve.
In 2015, 1.1 million refugees arrived in Germany from war torn
countries in North Africa and Syria.
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