A key suspect in the New Year's Eve mass sexual assaults in Cologne was spotted shoplifting in southern Germany and arrested across the border in Switzerland, authorities said on Thursday.
Police have conceded that only 80 police officers were present at Cologne train station during mass assaults on New Year’s Eve - not the 140 they originally stated.
UPDATE: Cologne police have arrested two men suspected of being connected to the assaults on women on New Year's Eve, less than a day after releasing their photos.
Numbers circulating in English-language media about the number of refugees involved in crimes in Cologne on New Year's Eve are wrong, Cologne prosecutors say.
Cologne's new police chief Jürgen Mathies said on Thursday that there is no evidence the sexual assaults in the city on the Rhine were organized – but admits it will be tough to bring the perpetrators to justice.
The number of sexual offence complaints almost quadrupled at this year's carnival celebrations in Cologne, German police said Wednesday, despite heightened security aimed at preventing a repeat of the mass assaults that marred the city's New Year celebrations.
A young mother made a brave stand against sexual assault in Germany’s streets on Tuesday, when she grabbed her attacker and stopped him getting away until the police arrived.
Authorities in the German city of Cologne said Tuesday that the number of criminal complaints arising from a rash of violence targeting women on New Year's Eve had risen to 561.
German authorities said Monday that nearly all the suspects in a rash of New Year's Eve violence against women in
Cologne were "of foreign origin", as foreigners came under attack amid surging tensions.
Cologne mayor Henriette Reker said police had failed to inform her fully about sexual assaults on New Year's Eve, in a final blow that has pushed police chief Wolfgang Albers to be suspended.
In Cologne, people passing through the main train station still feel unsafe - despite the increased police presence since a wave of sexual assaults on New Year's Eve.
