German police hid CCTV for months of Muslim gang beating and robbing student in Cologne
German police FINALLY release CCTV images of ‘Arab looking’ men who beat up British students in same Cologne square as New Year migrant sex attacks… so why has it taken months?
- Two British students were hospitalised after being attacked by a gang in Cologne
- They were set upon by six males as they took a tram from the Cathedral Square
- Despite the attack happening in August, police have only now released CCTV
German police have finally released CCTV
images of ‘Arab looking men’ who allegedly beat up and robbed British
tourists in Cologne – months after the attack.
The two Britons, who were both 18 at the
time of the incident, were allegedly attacked by a group of six males,
leaving them hospitalised.
The attack came in August when the two
young men took a tram from Cologne’s Cathedral Square, the site of the
New Year migrant sex attacks in 2015, and they were set upon.
When the two Brits got of the tram at Slabystrasse and walked towards the Muelheim Bridge over the Rhine, they were attacked.
The gang reportedly punched and kicked both men multiple times, stealing a mobile phone and a wallet.
The mob were said to be between 18 and 20
years old, with one of them described as being ‘particularly large’,
while the others were said to be of normal build and ‘Arab-looking’.
But Cologne police have only released the
CCTV pictures now in the hope witnesses might recognise those who
carried out the attack.
In Germany, the police are often slow to
release CCTV footage of suspects, and are often hamstrung by local
authorities’ regulations.
In many cases, they only release images of suspects when all other means of solving a crime have come to a dead end.
In addition, authorities sometimes censor
such footage out of fear it will incite racial hatred, as happened when a
politician prevented the police from posting an appeal for help in the
search for the suspect in the Berlin Christmas attack.
Till Steffen, 43, head of the judicial
authority in Hamburg, allegedly stopped the local police from posting a
picture of Anis Amri, 24, who killed 12 in the attack, on their website.
In a much-derided statement, the Hamburg
police claim they were only able to post a text about the fact that
police had images of the suspect without actually posting the images
themselves.
According to German media, Steffen
justified his stance by saying that such posts on police websites could
provoke insulting or inflammatory comments likely to inspire racial
hatred.
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