MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On New Year's Eve, hundreds of women in several German cities, most notably in Hamburg and Cologne, were allegedly robbed, threatened and sexually assaulted by as many as 1,000 men of Arab and North African appearance, who were reportedly divided in small groups.
According to the Spiegel publication, one of the convicted is a 21-year-old native of Iraq who kissed and licked a face of a woman on the street without her permission. Another convict, a 26-year-old man from Algeria, shouted insults to women on the street, as part of a group of 15-20 people.
These are the first convictions in connection with the resonant case.
