Stickers saying “Merkel must go” are plastered over an election campaign poster in Frankfurt ReutersTwo Afghan asylum-seekers have been arrested on suspicion of raping a 16-year-old girl in Bavaria, where there has been a 48 per cent rise in sexual attacks this year. The two men, aged 27 and 17, were caught after a police helicopter with thermal imaging found them together with a third Afghan, 18, who had also fled the scene. The victim, who was reported to have a “migration background”, had visited a refugee hostel in the small town of Hoehenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn on the southern outskirts of Munich on Friday night. She was attacked after leaving with the three men for the train station to return to Munich. Officials in Munich said last week that they were investigating why the number of rapes in the state had…

Source: The Times September 18, 2017 10:52 UTC