Cologne attacks: Algerian man acquitted of attempted sexual assault

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Cologne attacks: Algerian man acquitted of attempted sexual assault



A Cologne court has acquitted a 26-year-old Algerian man of a charge of attempted sexual assault on a woman during the German city’s New Year’s celebrations.

No proof was found of his participation in an alleged group attack on a woman in which she says she was surrounded by ten men and groped.

The suspect, who has been named only as Farouk B, was also charged with theft. Police found the plaintiff’s mobile phone on him, although he claims he was sold the handset. He received a six-month suspended sentence for breaking into a car and fencing stolen property.

German news agency DPA reported the suspect’s 23-year-old brother was facing charges of robbery and theft relating to another woman who was also allegedly surrounded. He was handed the same sentence as Farouk.

Neither of the convicted have applied for asylum in Germany. They being held in custody pending deportation.

The large number of accusations of sexual assault and robbery during the end-of-year festivities caused uproar in Germany, prompting the government to fast-track a reform of its sexual assault legislation. Once done, its hoped perpetrators will be easier to convict.

Prosecutors in Cologne received 1,170 criminal complaints relating to the evening of New Year’s Eve, 492 of which were allegations of sexual assault. They were reportedly carried out by men of North African and Arab appearance prompting questions over Germany’s ‘open door’ migration policy.

A little over a week into January, the city’s chief of police was placed in temporary retirement for his handling of the situation.

Prior to Friday (May 6), nine convictions had been made for theft, but this is only the second of two cases in which a sexual assault suspect has been identified.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-05-07

[wabothai]

And 492 allegations. Worrisome.

[razer]

I think all the police that should have been providing public safety should be transferred to inactive posts in Hexenplatz.

[Saradoc1972]

I think all the police that should have been providing public safety should be transferred to inactive posts in Hexenplatz.

No, no and no. There is a lot of blame to put everywhere, but the police actually there on Domplatte are not to blame.

They were too few, their superiors failed to call in more reserves when those were actually offered from Düsseldorf, if memory serves.

Those police present were totally overwhelmed and the information about what was happening was first not available, then things had got too much momentum. The little charmers were running in circles round police, actively blocking their access to victims crying for help. Hard to think of a tactic to devise there and then. (I actually do wish they had used their handguns, it's not like we would be missing anybody now, but in Germany that would be very unusual and legally risky at the moment.)

And what is "Hexenplatz"? "Witches' place"? Does not ring a bell with me.

[Ulic]

Of course they are guilty but it is all circumstantial evidence.

[Rancid]

A guilty verdict does not endorse the joys and benefits of Muslim immigration PC EU governments endorse, which is why so few are ever convicted.

[Steely Dan]

Germany is truly Farouked.

[BlackJack]

mmmmmm

not sure if the judges are intimidated into not convicting this scum or they are strictly adhering to the letter of the law

however having the victims phone in your possession errs towards the victim

oh well

the Germany right wing will sort it out

maybe

[jaidam]

The clue to the acquittal was in the frantic denials from the 1st Jan onwards that it was muslim immigrants doing the mass raping at Cologne. Of course it was them, who else. The truth doesn't support the notion of cultural enrichment at all, expect many more coverups or to put it simply keeping muslims elevated above the laws of the land.

[arjunadawn]

Individually, each of these cases presents no particular pattern. Distressing, but not unheard of in the West. Collectively, in context, it is like a rising crescendo.