🇩🇪🔴 “They tried to penetrate every opening of our bodies.” German woman Claudia Vosen and her daughter suffered a mass sexual assault at the hands of Arabs during the Cologne New Year’s Eve attacks of 2015/16. After the harrowing sexual assaults, Vosen faced a new hell from co-workers who called her racist. She is speaking out now, a decade later, to EMMA magazine. She said when migrants finished sexually assaulting them over the course of a half-hour, the women were “spat out.” Vosen filed a complaint that night; she was one of 627 women who did so just in one city, Cologne. What followed, she said, was almost as damaging as the attack. “When I arrived at work in January and told everyone what had happened to me, they said: ‘You’re crazy. They really messed me up. What are you saying… that’s not true. Otherwise we would have heard or read something. You have something against foreigners,’” said Vosen. “Everything was swept under the rug. That was the worst part. It was denied, covered up.” Vosen’s daughter also suffered. On the schoolyard, her daughter heard, “Just be glad you weren’t raped.” Vosen’s daughter began avoiding groups of young men who appeared Arab. “Young women don’t defend themselves the way we used to,” says the mother. “They no longer dare to laugh in the face of a group of boys who cause them problems. They answer cautiously. They are afraid.” “New Year’s Eve opened my eyes,” said Claudia Vosen. “For me, there is a before and an after.” She also stated that afterwards, the demonstrations were not against the mass sexual assaults and rapes but instead focused on “racism.” She said these protesters did not act out of solidarity with the victims but with the migrants. “Instead of simply saying who the perpetrators are, whether right or left. We weren’t allowed to say back then: ‘Those were Arabs.’ All that remained was: people with a foreign appearance,” she said. Nationwide, 1,200 women filed reports of sexual violence that fateful night. Estimates indicated the number of men involved at more than 2,000. Cologne Police President Wolfgang Albers initially called the night “largely peaceful.” Days later, he admitted, as reported by the BBC, that a “very large number of sexual assaults” had been committed by groups of young men “largely of North African or Arab appearance.” An internal federal police report revealed that women ran a “gauntlet” through masses of heavily intoxicated foreign men “that words cannot describe.” The report labeled the scene as “chaotic and shameful.” North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Minister Ralf Jäger later told a state parliamentary committee that the perpetrators were “almost exclusively” people with a migration background. “All signs point to these being North Africans and people from the Arab world,” he said, adding that asylum seekers who had arrived just months earlier were among the suspects. Of 153 suspects identified in Cologne for offenses that night, about two-thirds were from Morocco or Algeria; roughly 44% were asylum seekers and another 12% were believed to be in Germany illegally. However, actual convictions were almost non-existent due to the chaos and the lack of footage, which means hundreds of women went without justice. Follow: @RMXnews

🇰🇬🇩🇪 “Do you like to have sex?” A man from Kyrgyzstan sexually harassed a German travel influencer, Valerie Kraus, who was traveling solo in the country. When he demanded they go to his yurt, she responded, “You said sex, I said no.” He asked her if she had a husband and if her tent “sleeps 1 person or 2.” “I’m so glad I filmed this. It just shows the reality sometimes,” she said afterwards. In Muslim countries, Western women traveling solo can face harassment, and in some cases, it has also led to sexual assault. The Instagram user “journeyious” noted that Instagram removed her video when she first posted it for reasons that were never explained. She subsequently reposted the encounter. Follow: @RMXnews

🇩🇪🔴 "Since the attack, he wakes up every night screaming." An African migrant randomly attacked a 14-year-old German boy inside Freiburg’s central train station and tried to gouge out his eye. The victim’s father, Roland H., also believes the attacker may have tried to carve a swastika into the boy’s cheek. The suspect has already been released by police. Leon had just stepped off a train from Heilbronn on Sept. 9 and was waiting on a staircase for his father, 54-year-old Roland H., when an Ethiopian man punched him in the face without warning. The blow knocked Leon's head against a stone step and left him dazed. The attacker then bent over him, reached for his eye and shouted, "I'll kill you!" A cafe owner, 46-year-old Pino R., said he saw the assault and intervened. "I saw the boy sitting by the stairs. At that moment, I saw and heard the perpetrator running towards the boy shouting: 'I'll kill you,"' Pino R. told Bild newspaper. He added, "Then, the man reached for the boy's eye and threatened to tear out his eyeball. Then, I jumped on the attacker and pulled him down." Only then, Pino R. said, did he see that the man was holding a carpet knife. He called staff for help and alerted police. Roland H. arrived shortly afterward and found his injured son on the stairs. Leon was taken to a hospital with injuries to his face and eye. The father said that the injury on Leon's cheek looks remarkably like a swastika, raising questions about whether the Ethiopian migrant tried to carve the symbol in the boy's face. "Thank God he missed the eye when he tried to grab it," Roland H. said. "I am so grateful to Pino. He saved my son's life." Officers found pepper spray and a utility knife in the suspect's pants pocket. The suspect allegedly told police he had mistaken the boy for someone else. Leon remains in pain and is taking painkillers. He is also receiving psychiatric treatment following the random attack. "He is now very introverted and has said he will never take the train again," his father said. "Since the attack, he wakes up every night screaming." Follow: @RMXnews

🇪🇸 An illegal Moroccan migrant allegedly shot his lawyer at point-blank range after losing a lawsuit in southern Spain, leaving the attorney hospitalized in serious condition. The shooting took place at around 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday in El Ejido, Almería, after a dispute between the suspect and the lawyer over compensation connected to an unsuccessful legal claim. The lawyer had represented the suspect following an accident at an internet café where the migrant had been working illegally. He is a Moroccan national who entered Spain by boat through the Canary Islands around four years ago. He has recently applied to have his immigration status regularized as part of Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez's mass amnesty. The attacker used live ammunition, firing an old .32-caliber automatic pistol into the lawyer’s side at point-blank range before fleeing. A police manhunt continues.

🇳🇴 Norway This is 21-year-old Kenyan Cecil Terrian Mungai Mbugua. He has been charged with 13 cases of violence, assaults, and attempted rape targeting women aged 26 to 93 in the city of Oslo. Many of his rape victims were elderly women. Oslo police expanded the indictment this week by five additional cases from the original 8. However, Mbugua may end up serving no prison time at all. The prosecution is considering declaring him mentally unfit and ordering compulsory psychiatric observation.