New Year's Eve S-e-x Assaults Prompt In Austria
Police in Austria are hunting for at least six men accused of "unprecedented" s-e-xual assaults on New Year's Eve in the city of Innsbruck. The guys, described as Asian or north African, surrounded 18 ladies watching a firework display, kissing and groping them, police stated.A special police research group is undertaking the quest. Authorities stated they had been additionally searching refugee shelters for the suspects.
The attack passed off inside the city's most important square, in which hundreds had gathered for the brand new 12 months's Eve celebration, the AFP news agency pronounced. The top of the investigation, Ernst Krane bitter, advised the BBC that the dimensions of the assaults and the way they were finished have been remarkable for Innsbruck.
Innsbruck's attacks come a yr after extra than a hundred women suggested s-e-xual attacks in Cologne, Germany, on New year's Eve 2015. Gangs of migrants were accused of the attacks.
Cologne responded with an increased police presence at this year's event. But police were accused of racial profiling, and it emerged that almost all of the 650 people stopped for identity checks were north African.
Meanwhile, reports of mass s-e-xual assaults in the southern Indian city of Bangalore on New Year's Eve have been dismissed by local police.
