A performance artist has taken to the very same square in which dozens of women were sexually assaulted, stolen from, and raped, in a bid to remind Germany and the newly arrived migrants that women are “not fair game” even when naked.

Milo Moire was photographed completely nude, holding up a poster reading “Respect us! We are no fair game, even when we are naked!!!” near Cologne’s landmark Cathedral on the morning of January 8, 2016.

Thirty-one suspects, including 18 asylum seekers, are under investigation over offences including assault and theft in Cologne on New Year’s Eve, Germany’s interior ministry has said, while Cologne’s chief of police is said to have been dismissed over the scandal.

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The Local reports that it was just four degrees celsius (39F) outside in Cologne when the protest took place this morning:

The 32-year-old Düsseldorf-based artist and model stood on the square outside Cologne’s world-famous cathedral for around 20 minutes on Friday morning, watched by members of the public and a few police officers, who joined the group of onlookers but took no action against Moiré.