Unprecedented sex harassment in Helsinki at New Year, Finnish police report

Finnish police 'tipped off' about plans by groups of asylum seekers to sexually harass women

Asylum seekers who gathered in central Helsinki on New Years’s Eve “had similar plans” to commit sexual assault and other crimes as those who targeted women in the Germany city of Cologne, Finnish Police have reported.

Three Iraqi asylum seekers have been arrested for committing sexual assaults during the celebrations in the city’s Senate Square, where some 20,000 had gathered, and another 15 arrested for other disturbances.

Security personnel reported “widespead sexual harrassment” during the celebrations, police added, with women complaining that asylum seekers had groped their breasts and kissed them without permission.

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