At least four women 'are sexually assaulted by immigrant men during a rampage at a party in Germany' in a chilling echo of the New Year's Eve attacks
- Police said the people who filed complaints could be 'the tip of the iceberg'
- More officers sent to the Essen Original city party in response to attacks
- Women said men approached in groups then harassed and groped them
Immigrant
men have groped and sexually assaulted a number of women in a German
city in copycat attacks of the New Year's eve sex frenzy in Cologne.
Police
said the four women who filed complaints after the incidents in Essen
late on Friday could be 'only the tip of the iceberg.'
Women
who may have been attacked at the Essen Original city party have been
offered a confidential hotline by officers to contact them.
Immigrant men have groped and sexually
assaulted a number of women in a German city in copycat attacks of the
New Year's eve sex frenzy in Cologne (shown in file picture)
The police presence at the festival was beefed up over the weekend as a result of the sexual assaults.
All said that men came up to them in groups, danced around them, harassed and groped them.
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This
mirrored the attacks in Cologne on December 31 when mobs of North
African migrants assaulted hundreds of women in attacks which served to
turn Germany against the open-door refugee policy of Chancellor Angela
Merkel.
Despite
defending her record in a long interview on Saturday with the BILD
newspaper, the chancellor is braced for a beating at the hustings on
Sunday when the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) party is
set to defeat her own CDU conservatives in a regional election in her
home state.
Attacks in Cologne served to turn Germany against the open-door refugee policy of Chancellor Angela Merkel
Police
said the Essen victims were attacked in three parts of the city by
North African men in groups of four and six 'who drove their victims
into corners and groped them all over.'
Most
of the abusers are still being hunted but police apprehended several
lone suspects shortly after the complaints were made. Two 16-year-olds
and a 46-year-old man were questioned but later released.
Police
spokesman Peter Elke said: 'The heavy police presence on the ground
meant we could promptly identify and arrest some suspected attackers.'
All suspects are immigrants or of a migrant background.
Elke
added: 'The sequence of events has to be determined. Therefore we are
looking for witnesses to the attacks as enquiries continue.'
The festival continued on Sunday and will end on Monday night.
Organisers
have promised to work with police to provide greater security for women
in the hours of darkness when bands play and people stroll among food
stands, acrobats and street artists.
The chancellor is braced for a beating
at the hustings on Sunday when the anti-immigration Alternative for
Germany (AfD) party is set to defeat her own CDU conservatives in a
regional election. Pictured is AfD party leader Frauke Petry
The
news could not have come at a worse time for the chancellor as the AfD
is set to score a bigger percentage of the vote in her home state of
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on Sunday.
Thousands
of CDU supporters have defected to the AfD as a direct result of her
immigration policy. The AfD wants an end to refugee immigration.
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