Cologne sex assaults

Reported Sex Assaults More than Double at Cologne Carnival

The number of reported sexual assaults at Cologne’s annual carnival more than doubled this year, with 22 cases reported on the ‘Women’s Carnival’ day. Only nine cases were reported on last year’s “Weibsfastnacht”, when women don costumes and head to

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Fact Check: Daily Express Publishes Fake Cologne Assault Video

The Daily Express posted a video Thursday which purports to show a woman screaming as she is attacked in Cologne, Germany, on New Year’s Eve. In fact, the video in question was shot in Cairo in 2013, and the audio comes from a completely different clip of an assault that also took place in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2013.

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