A German town has banned male asylum seekers from a public swimming pool.
Officials in Bornheim said women had complained of harassment, and the ban would be enforced until the men ‘got the message’ that such behaviour was unacceptable.
‘There have been complaints of sexual harassment and chatting-up going on in this swimming pool… by groups of young men, and thtis has prompted some women to leave,’ Markus Schnapka, head of social affairs in Bornheim, said.
He confirmed that no crimes had been committed, but social workers in the town would help the asylum seekers to change their behaviour.
Germany has also just agreed to introduce ID cards for migrants in February.
The indoor swimming pool in Bornheim, western Germany, photographed Friday Jan. 15, 2016. The town of Bornheim has banned male refugees from a local swimming pool after complaints from female bathers and staff. An official in Bornheim says other visitors complained of sexual harassment by men living in a nearby asylum seeker shelter. Bornheim is a few kilometers (miles) south of Cologne, which experienced a string of robberies and sexual assaults at New Year that police blamed largely on foreigners. The incident has stoked a debate in Germany about how to integrate the almost 1.1 million asylum seekers who arrived last year. (Henning Kaiser/dpa via AP)
The pool has banned asylum seekers indefinitely (Picture: AP)
The ban in Bornheim follows an incident involving hundreds of sexual assaults in Cologne, which is just 12 miles away, and other German cities on New Year’s Eve.
More than 1.1million people claimed asylum in Germany last year.
Since the attacks refugees in Germany have been attacked,
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/16/germa...-after-cologne-attacks-5627371/#ixzz3xSNLJzVN
Officials in Bornheim said women had complained of harassment, and the ban would be enforced until the men ‘got the message’ that such behaviour was unacceptable.
‘There have been complaints of sexual harassment and chatting-up going on in this swimming pool… by groups of young men, and thtis has prompted some women to leave,’ Markus Schnapka, head of social affairs in Bornheim, said.
He confirmed that no crimes had been committed, but social workers in the town would help the asylum seekers to change their behaviour.
Germany has also just agreed to introduce ID cards for migrants in February.
The indoor swimming pool in Bornheim, western Germany, photographed Friday Jan. 15, 2016. The town of Bornheim has banned male refugees from a local swimming pool after complaints from female bathers and staff. An official in Bornheim says other visitors complained of sexual harassment by men living in a nearby asylum seeker shelter. Bornheim is a few kilometers (miles) south of Cologne, which experienced a string of robberies and sexual assaults at New Year that police blamed largely on foreigners. The incident has stoked a debate in Germany about how to integrate the almost 1.1 million asylum seekers who arrived last year. (Henning Kaiser/dpa via AP)
The pool has banned asylum seekers indefinitely (Picture: AP)
The ban in Bornheim follows an incident involving hundreds of sexual assaults in Cologne, which is just 12 miles away, and other German cities on New Year’s Eve.
More than 1.1million people claimed asylum in Germany last year.
Since the attacks refugees in Germany have been attacked,
Read more: http://metro.co.uk/2016/01/16/germa...-after-cologne-attacks-5627371/#ixzz3xSNLJzVN
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