Berlin official condemns harassment of women at street fest

Published May 17, 2016

Berlin's top security official is condemning incidents in which young women were sexually harassed by groups of men at a street festival in the city.

Police say a 17-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman were surrounded by a group of around 10 men at the Carnival of Cultures event Saturday. Police arrived shortly afterward and briefly detained three teenage boys who were part of the group.

In addition, a 16-year-old girl reported being harassed in similar fashion on Friday, though a witness turned away the would-be assailants. State interior minister Frank Henkel Tuesday described the incidents as "abhorrent and criminal."

Larger-scale assaults in Cologne on New Year's Eve, blamed largely on North Africans, stoked tensions over Germany's recent migrant influx.

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