Cologne New Year’s Eve mass sex assault victims were only spared from being raped by migrant mobs because they wore TIGHTS, police chief reveals
Top cop describes horror as some victims were surrounded by up to 50 groping men
WOMEN only avoided being raped during a New Year's Eve sexual frenzy by refugee mobs because they were wearing tights, a senior policewoman in Cologne has said.
Police Commissioner Sonja E., 26, was giving evidence before a fact-finding investigative committee of the state parliament in Dusseldorf when she made the statement about the everyday apparel sparing women from horrendous ordeals.
The policewoman, whose surname was withheld in the public hearing, told how she helped four victims near the entrance to Cologne Cathedral on the night of the attacks in and around the central station.
"They broke down completely and just wept," she said. "They were completely overwhelmed."
There was silence in the room as she described how some victims were surrounded by up to 50 men at a time.
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"The men pulled up their short dresses and grabbed their buttocks and breasts.
"The four women I spoke with said the men attempted to penetrate into their bottoms and vaginas with their fingers. But that did not happen because they were all wearing tights."
The officer said she believed such clothing saved many of the victims from suffering far worse than just groping.
The policewoman said the level of violence on the night was "unusually high".
Men with broken beer bottles were attacking each other.
"I have never seen such brutally violent crime before," she said.
"There were rockets and smoke in the air everywhere, people threw firecrackers at each other. That was not normal."
A total of 1,600 crimes were reported on the night, most of them sexual assaults and robberies.
The attackers were almost exclusively immigrant men from North Africa.
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