The extreme right organized attacks against foreigners in Cologne
The xenophobic attacks perpetrated yesterday in Cologne (West Germany) organized through social media networks with appeals of the extreme right for participation in a "walking" in the center of the city, local police said.
"In the four attack cases (aimed Syrians, Pakistanis and Africans) we start from the assumption that associated with so-called" walking "," said the head of the criminal department of police of Cologne, Norbert Wagner, who announced the strengthening of its presence police "today" (Monday) in the city and especially near the Cathedral.
Yesterday evening, six Pakistanis, three from Guinea, two Syrians and a man of African descent whose nationality was not specified, were victims of four separate attacks in the center of Cologne.
The police interrogated about 153 suspects yesterday and admitted 13 persons were already known for offenses connected with the extreme right and 18 others from the environment of "bikers" and mainly from the gang "Hells Angels" or "cleaners of container overnight. " There was no arrest, police stated.
According to the same source, calls for participation in walks in the city center have made people from the circles of "hooligans" and aired by groups such as the "Altstadt Spaziergaenge" (walks in the old city) or "Armlaenge", a reference to the words used by the mayor of Cologne calling particularly women to keep "a certain distance above the opening bracket" from strangers to protect themselves from attacks.
More than 500 complaints, 40% of which relates to sexual assault, submitted after a New Year's Eve during which dozens of young men, mostly of foreign origin, according to police, attacked women in a square in the center of Cologne between the main station and the Cathedral.
The xenophobic attacks perpetrated yesterday in Cologne (West Germany) organized through social media networks with appeals of the extreme right for participation in a "walking" in the center of the city, local police said.
"In the four attack cases (aimed Syrians, Pakistanis and Africans) we start from the assumption that associated with so-called" walking "," said the head of the criminal department of police of Cologne, Norbert Wagner, who announced the strengthening of its presence police "today" (Monday) in the city and especially near the Cathedral.
Yesterday evening, six Pakistanis, three from Guinea, two Syrians and a man of African descent whose nationality was not specified, were victims of four separate attacks in the center of Cologne.
The police interrogated about 153 suspects yesterday and admitted 13 persons were already known for offenses connected with the extreme right and 18 others from the environment of "bikers" and mainly from the gang "Hells Angels" or "cleaners of container overnight. " There was no arrest, police stated.
According to the same source, calls for participation in walks in the city center have made people from the circles of "hooligans" and aired by groups such as the "Altstadt Spaziergaenge" (walks in the old city) or "Armlaenge", a reference to the words used by the mayor of Cologne calling particularly women to keep "a certain distance above the opening bracket" from strangers to protect themselves from attacks.
More than 500 complaints, 40% of which relates to sexual assault, submitted after a New Year's Eve during which dozens of young men, mostly of foreign origin, according to police, attacked women in a square in the center of Cologne between the main station and the Cathedral.