The assaults took place in Cologne (Picture: Getty)

A gang of up to 1,000 men sexually assaulted dozens of women in Cologne on New Year’s Eve – in a series of alleged attacks police described as a ‘a completely new dimension of crime’.

Police received 60 criminal complaints from women around Cologne’s main train station next to the western German city’s famous cathedral on the night from Thursday to Friday.

There was one allegation of rape.

Cologne police chief Wolfgang Albers says witnesses described the assaults as coming from a group of up to 1,000 men whose appearance indicated they were of, ‘Arab or North African origin.’


Police emblem, Cologne (Picture Getty)

Albers said it was, ‘an intolerable situation that such crimes are committed in the middle of the city.’



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