Cologne, Germany: Sex attacks prevented by screening, police say

[TomSea]

Sex attacks prevented by screening, police say
German police say they have prevented a repeat of the assaults and robberies suffered by hundreds of women in Cologne a year ago by screening 650 mostly North African men on New Year's Eve.
Police detained and screened many of the men at the main railway station on Sunday as they headed towards the centre of Cologne in western Germany.

Attacks there a year earlier fuelled criticism of Chancellor Angela Merkel's open-door migrant policy.

Cologne police chief Juergen Mathies did not say how many of the men were subsequently allowed into the city centre but denied that the checks amounted to racial profiling. He also said many of those detained had been aggressive.

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