{"id":1213589,"date":"2022-01-13T09:34:25","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T14:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1213589"},"modified":"2022-01-13T09:34:28","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T14:34:28","slug":"italian-police-search-18-migrant-background-youths-suspected-of-milan-nye-sex-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/italian-police-search-18-migrant-background-youths-suspected-of-milan-nye-sex-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Italian Police Search 18 Migrant-Background Youths Suspected of Milan NYE Sex Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fitalian-police-search-18-migrant-background-youths-suspected-of-milan-nye-sex-attacks%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1213589&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-1273606746-e1641934839130-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Italian police in Milan have identified and searched 18 migrant-background youths alleged to have taken part in sex attacks on New Year\u2019s Eve in Milan\u2019s central cathedral square in an incident that has been met with comparisons to the infamous Cologne New Year\u2019s Eve attacks of 2015 which saw over 1,000 women molested.<\/p>\n<p>The youths, aged between 15 and 21 are said to be either foreign-born or to be Italian citizens of North African heritage, are suspected of sexually assaulting as many as nine girls and young women in the&nbsp;Piazza del Duomo on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The operation to identify and search the 18 youths was undertaken by both the Milan and Turin police and of the 18, twelve are being actively investigated for group sexual violence, robbery and aggravated assault, <em>Il Giornale<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilgiornale.it\/news\/milano\/milano-violenze-sessuali-capodanno-perquisiti-18-giovani-3-2001284.html\">reports<\/a>. Britain\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Guardian<\/em> reports police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jan\/11\/police-raid-homes-of-18-suspects-over-new-years-eve-sexual-assaults-in-milan\">raided the homes<\/a> of 15 individuals.<\/p>\n<p>According to the newspaper, investigators were able to identify the youths through witness testimony and from videos of the attacks that had been posted on social media.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>One of the victims, a German student, spoke out about the attacks on New Year\u2019s Eve <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilgiornale.it\/news\/milano\/spero-li-trovino-vittime-delle-violenze-duomo-chiedono-2001345.html\">saying<\/a>, \u201cI hope they find them and that justice is done for us and for all the other girls who were molested that evening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I fell to the ground it was all so fast, I thought \u2018my God they are going to rape me\u2019. They saw that I was crying, I begged them to stop but they didn\u2019t stop, they laughed. Those hands were so aggressive, forcefully slipping them between my legs. I can\u2019t imagine what would have happened if we hadn\u2019t worn shorts,\u201d the girl <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilgiornale.it\/news\/milano\/milano-violenze-sessuali-capodanno-perquisiti-18-giovani-3-2001284.html\">told<\/a> the television programme&nbsp;Quarta Repubblica.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI remember turning my head quickly and seeing one hand, then the other, so many hands on my body, on my breasts, between my legs, on my butt. I don\u2019t know how many hands I had on me, but there were many. I think it was 30 men, I don\u2019t know maybe 50, they didn\u2019t stop and they tore off my bra and touched my breasts. I was naked, I panicked, I tried to protect my body from all those hands,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"sv\" dir=\"ltr\">Six Migrants Arrested Over Innsbruck NYE Sex Attacks <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NdIVvOXcBe\">https:\/\/t.co\/NdIVvOXcBe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Kt5GWUPIs\">pic.twitter.com\/9Kt5GWUPIs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/818847371123560448?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 10, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the victim, her attackers spoke a language she believes to have been Arabic saying, \u201cThey talked to each other. I don\u2019t remember well, but I heard that they spoke in Arabic. I don\u2019t know about everyone, but I heard an Arabic language. I don\u2019t know how I found the strength to get up from the ground. Only at the end, only after at least 10 minutes, I think, we managed to escape to the barriers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The incident echoes similar group sex attacks such as the mass attack in Cologne in 2015 that saw at least<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2016\/12\/15\/cologne-one-year-arrests-fewer-convictions\/\"> 1,300 young people, overwhelmingly women,<\/a> robbed, sexually abused and even raped in and around the Cologne cathedral square and the city\u2019s main railway station. The attacks were little reported in German at first, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2016\/01\/08\/the-times-breitbart-london-brought-the-truth-about-cologne-to-the-global-public\/\">after being amplified in the English speaking world by Breitbart News<\/a>, Cologne\u2019s New Year\u2019s Eve became one of the biggest scandals in Germany that year.<\/p>\n<p>Similar sex attacks have been seen in other countries, such as Austria on New Year\u2019s Eve 2016, where at least 18 women were sexually assaulted in Innsbruck. Austrian police later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2017\/01\/10\/six-migrants-arrested-innsbruck-nye-sex-attacks\/\">arrested<\/a> six migrants from Afghanistan in connection with the attacks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Spate of New Year\u2019s Eve Sex Attacks in Berlin and Cologne <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yp3ZEFiRxZ\">https:\/\/t.co\/Yp3ZEFiRxZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/948222365539995648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at&nbsp;<span data-darkreader-inline-color=\"\"><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>or email at&nbsp;ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian police in Milan have identified and searched 18 migrant-background youths alleged to have taken part in sex attacks on New Year\u2019s Eve in Milan\u2019s central cathedral square in an &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}