In Germany, the police have been investigating reports of dozens of sexual assaults in the western city of Cologne on New Year’s Eve. PhotoThe Swedish police said on Tuesday that they were investigating reports that dozens of young women and girls were sexually assaulted at two music festivals in Sweden last weekend. The Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter accused the police of failing to publicize details about sexual assaults at a festival in Stockholm last summer until the newspaper drew attention to the episode. “These were reports of women being touched in unwanted places, such as on their breasts and on their bottoms and inside their underwear,” he said. The Sweden Democrats, a far-right anti-immigrant party, won almost 13 percent of the vote in a 2014 general election.

Source: New York Times July 05, 2016 17:48 UTC