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The woman told the newspaper that “they grabbed me under my skirt, between the legs and on my breast - everywhere.”
But police confirmed on Tuesday to the Frankfurter Rundschau that their investigation of the allegations had led them to believe that they were spurious.
“Interviews with alleged witnesses, guests and employees led to major doubts with the version of events that had been presented,” the police said.
“One of the alleged victims was not even in Frankfurt at the time the allegations are said to have taken place.”
The police were indeed unequivocal in how they understood the events to have unfolded.
“Masses of refugees were not responsible for any sexual assaults in the Fressgass over New Year. The accusations are completely baseless,” the police said.
Before the Bild report, no sexual assaults were reported to police from Fressgass over New Year.
Prosecutors are now looking into whether Mai and the 27-year-old woman made up the story.
Bild newspaper is bitterly resented by the German left, which accuses it of having stoked hatred against immigrants over decades.
On its website Bild published a statement on Tuesday, saying “Bild apologizes expressly for the untruthful article and the accusations made in it.
There is a connection between the emergence of this phenomenon and the rapid migration in 2015," Holger Münch, president of the German Federal Crime Police Office, told Sueddeutsche Zeitung
Officers said they had arrested 10 suspected attackers, including migrants, in connection with the assaults on December 31 in Große Freiheit and Beatles Square.
originally posted by: OccamsRazor04
a reply to: ManFromEurope
Oh, so it happened, and took 6 months to come out in 2016 .... so it has to all be made up by Feb in 2017.
Police confirmed some of those trying to reach the square had been involved last year
At least 150 of them were described as “the clientele from last year.”
Police swooped on the throng around 9.30pm and took the personal details of all of them. There were no arrests.
Many were put on to trains back to the towns they had come from by officers.
One man was arrested for groping a woman, three more who did the same are still being hunted.
There were 1,500 police on duty – ten times the number last year – backed up by hundreds of volunteers and public order officials.
“Overall the situation dissolved quickly and quietly because many parties left the city by train,” said a police spokesman.
originally posted by: odzeandennz
a reply to: eNumbra
in the age of cell phones videos, and facebook live and periscope or cctvs, you would thing there would a metric fuc k ton of evidence of 1200 sexual assaults/rapes in 30 days, instead of spurious blog articles and non existent police reports...
Bild did apologize for the article; admitting that their reporting was lackluster. There you have it, the great New Years Muslim sexual assault was anything but.
originally posted by: odzeandennz
a reply to: eNumbra
in the age of cell phones videos, and facebook live and periscope or cctvs, you would thing there would a metric fuc k ton of evidence of 1200 sexual assaults/rapes in 30 days, instead of spurious blog articles and non existent police reports...
originally posted by: TheSpottedOwl
a reply to: eNumbra
Bild did apologize for the article; admitting that their reporting was lackluster. There you have it, the great New Years Muslim sexual assault was anything but.
This is about a specific article that Bild ran, it doesn't mean that nothing happened. Was Bild the only one to report on it?
Seems you like you will jump on anything to make it look like nothing happened.