18 women sexually assaulted at German festival

Police have made three arrests after a string of Cologne-style groping incidents at Schlossgrabenfest in Darmstadt on Sunday

Crowds in Darmstadt for Schlossgrabenfest © Björn Friedrich/Schlossgrabenfest

Eighteen women have been sexually assaulted at a music festival in Hesse. Police in the city of Darmstadt have arrested three men, all of whom are asylum-seekers from Pakistan, after the women reported that they had been inappropriately touched at Schlossgrabenfest in the early hours of Sunday morning.

According to police, the assaults echoed the events of New Year’s Eve in Cologne as small groups of men “from the South Asian region” surrounded women attending the festival and groped them in the crowds…

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