Two migrants have been arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting two young girls at a public swimming baths in northern Germany.
The
Afghan asylum seekers, aged 14 and 34, had reportedly molested the
teenagers at a popular aquatics centre in Norderstedt, in the northern
state of Schleswig-Holstein.
The
alleged victims, aged 14 and 18, were reportedly assaulted on Sunday
near the water slide at the main pool of the town's Arriba baths
complex.
The Afghan asylum seekers, aged 14 and
34, had reportedly molested the teenagers at the Ariba swimming pools, a
popular aquatics centre in Norderstedt, in the northern state of
Schleswig-Holstein
The
frightened girls alerted security staff at the pool who held the men
until police arrived. Both were arrested for attempted rape and sexual
coercion.
They
are being held in custody without bail because they are considered a
flight risk and there are fears they may commit further assaults if let
free.
This is the second alleged incident involving foreigners at the Arriba swimming pools in just 18 months.
In
June 2014, a group of seven young immigrant men attacked five
schoolgirls aged between 15 and 17, grabbing their breasts and buttocks
and ripping the bikini top from one of them in the exact same spot where
the weekend attack occurred.
The alleged victims, aged 14 and 18,
were reportedly assaulted on Sunday near the water slide at the main
pool of the town's Arriba baths complex
Germany
has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on the distribution of
posters in numerous languages aimed at asylum seekers, informing them of
correct behaviour towards women.
Local
swimming pools have become a focus of efforts to try to educate the new
arrivals to respect women and girls, even if they are wearing bathing
costumes.
There
have been several attacks reported in Germany at such venues and in
neighbouring Austria an Iraqi asylum seeker is awaiting trial for the
brutal rape of a young boy in a pool changing room.
Germany
remains tense in the wake of the mass attacks against hundreds of women
in Cologne on New Year's Eve when roaming bands of immigrants sexually
attacked and robbed them in a frenzy which the police failed to
control.
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