GETTY Germany has been hit by more swimming pool sex attacks - allegedly carried by migrants

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In the first incident in Bad Oldesloe, in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, two men aged 23 and 24 allegedly assaulted five underage girls after grabbing them in the water and sexually assaulting them. The terrified girls raised the alarm with lifeguards, who had not observed what was happening, who threw them out and then called the police. Officers confirmed later that they had managed to arrest the two who were identified as asylum seekers living in nearby refugee accommodation.

They said that the two men had been taking it in turns to assault each of them Tom Litges

The officers said an investigation was currently underway on sexual assault charges. In the second incident, which happened in the Aquapark in the city of Oberhausen in North Rhine-Westphalia, two girls aged 13 and 15 were allegedly sexually assaulted in a swimming pool by two men aged 20 and 22 from Afghanistan. Both of the alleged attackers had already caused trouble before and had been banned from the building. The ban was apparently because the pair had put on diving glasses and been swimming underwater so that they could put their hands on the private parts of female swimmers.

GETTY • PIC POSED BY MODEL The officers said an investigation was currently underway on sexual assault charges

At that time the management had decided not to press charges against the pair. Again the girls raised the alarm with the lifeguards, saying that they had been stopped when they were using the giant slide and had been held so that they could be assaulted. One of the men had allegedly stopped himself halfway down so that he could grab the two girls and his friend then followed behind them so that they could pin them between the two for the sex attacks to take place. Police spokesman Tom Litges said: "The girls travelled down the chute but were stopped halfway down by the first attacker, and were unable to go any further when suddenly the second attacker then came up behind them and the two men put their hands on the girls' breasts and bottoms.

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