A Syrian asylum seeker has been arrested at a swimming pool after allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl last month in the pool’s changing room. The incident occurred last month on August 10 at a local swimming pool in the German city of Braunschweig.
Braunschweig senior public prosecutor Hans Christian Wolters explained that the teenage suspect has Syrian citizenship, saying he and a friend began the sexual harassment in the swimming pool itself. Still, it remains unclear if the friend took part in the later rape attack.
When the attack had ended, the victim contacted the staff at the pool, who subsequently informed local German police as to the events. The migrant teenager was arrested at the scene where he had remained after the alleged attack. An employee at the pool claimed it was the first such incident since it opened ten years ago.
While it may have been the first incident at that particular pool, sex attacks by migrants at pools and elsewhere across Germany have been a frequent theme since the migrant crisis in late 2015 and early 2016.
In 2019, a German feminist magazine admitted that migrants were behind many of the swimming pool sex attacks. Years later, in 2022, the federal head of the German police union blamed migrants for a mass brawl at a swimming pool in Berlin as well.
Migrants are also vastly over-represented in violent crime in Germany, accounting for nearly 60 percent of all cases, and migrant stabbing attacks have surged across the country.
Last month, three people were stabbed to death at a festival in Solingen by a Syrian asylum seeker who failed in his asylum claim and pledged loyalty to the Islamic State terror group.
