15 cases of sexual violence in Helsinki

The Finnish police are investigating fifteen cases of sexual violence against women in the center of the capital Helsinki on New Years Eve.

According to a report released Tuesday by the police goes in the violence to a rape and two attempted. In the other twelve cases were women groped, pinched in their body or licked their faces.

Several groups of ten to twenty 'foreign' men were operating in the city center, where they were possible to work with a preconceived tactic. Some victims were surrounded. In three cases, suspects have been identified as asylum seekers.

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