WHERE IS THE JUSTICE? Just SIX convicted for 500 Cologne sex attacks nearly year on
ALMOST one year after the Cologne New Year’s Eve sex attacks just SIX people have been brought to justice, despite more than 1,200 crimes reported.
Cologne attacks: The horrifying statistics
Protestors take to the streets of Cologne in protest of the New Year sex attacks
The world was outraged after migrants went on the rampage in Cologne along with other European cities to target women to rob, assault and sexually assault them in a night of horror.
In Cologne, more than 1,200 crimes were reported, including 500 sexual attacks.
But new figures have revealed just six the German legal system has only sentenced just six perpetrators.
Protestors outside Cologne cathedral over the New Year sex attacks
The figures have come to light due to a request from the Free Democratic Party (FDP) to the Ministry of the Interior which were published on Friday.
Of the 509 “sexually motivated activities”, 369, were suspended because no offender could be identified, including 211 prosecutions for sexual coercion or rape.
The trials against 52 accused people, whose names were known, who were charged with offences against sexual self-determination or insults on a sexual basis, were also dropped.
Police keep a watch on demonstrators in Cologne
Against 49 of them, there was no sufficient suspicion, of the other three the exact whereabouts could not be determined.
FDP district chairman Marc Lubke said: "What we had feared is now becoming reality. The investigation commissions and justice will evidently not be able to make up for the shortcomings in catching the perpetrators at the scene during the night.
Cologne's central train station where most of the attacks took place
This is a fatal signal for the victims and a revelation on the state-of-law.”
The Cologne court imposed sentences that ranged between six months and one year and nine months, on the six people that have been sentenced.
Most of which were suspended. One verdict is still outstanding.