Two men went on trial in Germany Friday accused of more than 400 counts of child sex abuse and running a paedophile ring in Berlin that targeted boys as young as six.
A high-ranking police officer has alleged that his seniors tried to strike the word rape from an internal police report after the mass sexual assaults in Cologne over New Year.
Refugees and asylum seekers were responsible for less than 4% of the sex crimes committed in Germany last year. The chances of a German being a victim of a sex crime committed by a refugee were tiny, leaked figures show.
UPDATED: Police in Cologne have "no leads" on the perpetrators behind dozens of sex attacks committed against women in the western cathedral city on New Year's Eve, officials said at a press conference on Tuesday.