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Despite numerous campaigns, classes and continual acceptance of refugees from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration, the horror stories of 2016 have not stopped. On the first day of 2017 a young woman was sexually assaulted as she looked for her boyfriend after a night out in Neumarkt in Bavaria. The woman told police she was looking for her partner, who was staying at a youth hostel for refugees in Kastengasse, when she was attacked. The victim had drunk so much alcohol she cannot fully remember the details of the assault, but told officers she was physically and sexually abused. Two young Afghans were arrested the following day and were brought before the prosecutor at the district court in Nuremberg, Bavaria. The men, believed to be aged about 18 remain in custody.

Cologne: Sex Attacks and Robberies Tue, January 12, 2016 Thirty-one suspects, including 18 asylum seekers, are under investigation over offences including sexual assault and theft in Cologne on New Year's Eve. Far right protestors in Lepzig have rallied against refugees and German chancellor Angela Merkel. Play slideshow Reuters•Getty 1 of 22 Protestors in Lepzig rally after over 100 women were sexually assualted on New Year's Eve

GETTY Foreigners accused of violent attacks on women in Germany in first days of 2017

There is also a lead to one of the suspects, and we'll look into that Andrzej Rydzik

According to police officer Andrzej Rydzik the men were of Mediterranean origin. He said: "There is also a lead to one of the suspects, and we'll look into that." The attacks follow a wave of horrendous incidents last year in which young men and women were raped in public areas and swimming pools. This week a 24-year-old offender – identified only as Ayoub L – appeared in court for raping a woman in the German region of Saxony. A woman was punched and dragged to the ground as she was walking on Lange Strasse in Nagold, southwestern Germany in December.

GETTY Sex attacks took place in Innsbruck, Austria

The suspect then sat on her, trying to pull her trousers down as he tried to take off his own clothes. This follows an attack on a woman aged 69 by a ‘Mediterranean’ boy in the small German town of Kellinghusen. The attacks led to the creation of anti-rape shorts, which are difficult to pull down. They sold out in the run up to New Year’s Eve.

In the city of Chemnitz, Saxony, foreign men are said to have beaten up a young girl at the Zenti central station. The incident occurred on Monday when three girls aged between 14 and 15 left a McDonalds restaurant in the evening. On the way to the central station several young men stood in their way and verbally abused them. One of the girls stood up for herself and was brutally beaten and kicked by one of the men. Following the attack the young women where they told a federal police officer about the incident.

GETTY Protests have been held in Germany after sex attacks

Cologne: Sex Attacks and Robberies Tue, January 12, 2016 Thirty-one suspects, including 18 asylum seekers, are under investigation over offences including sexual assault and theft in Cologne on New Year's Eve. Far right protestors in Lepzig have rallied against refugees and German chancellor Angela Merkel. Play slideshow Reuters•Getty 1 of 22 Protestors in Lepzig rally after over 100 women were sexually assualted on New Year's Eve

There is also a lead to one of the suspects, and we'll look into that Andrzej Rydzik

According to police officer Andrzej Rydzik the men were of Mediterranean origin. He said: "There is also a lead to one of the suspects, and we'll look into that." The attacks follow a wave of horrendous incidents last year in which young men and women were raped in public areas and swimming pools. This week a 24-year-old offender – identified only as Ayoub L – appeared in court for raping a woman in the German region of Saxony. A woman was punched and dragged to the ground as she was walking on Lange Strasse in Nagold, southwestern Germany in December.