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<\/a><\/center><\/p>\nThe German government tried to stay quiet on the number of sexual assaults that German women suffered on this last New Year Eve, but according to the Washington Post<\/a>, the numbers were leaked recently, and they are staggering;<\/p>\n More than 2,000 men were allegedly involved, and 120 suspects – about half of them foreign nationals who had only recently arrived in Germany – have been identified.<\/p>\n Only four have been convicted, but more trials are underway.<\/p>\n On Thursday, a court in Cologne sentenced two men in the New Year\u2019s Eve assaults. Hussein A., a 21-year-old Iraqi, and Hassan T., a 26-year-old Algerian, were handed suspended one-year sentences. Both arrived in Germany in the past two years, a court spokesman said. He declined to specify whether the two had sought asylum.<\/p>\n Officials have linked the sexual assaults to the influx of refugees. \u201cThere is a connection between the emergence of this phenomenon and the rapid migration in 2015,\u201d Holger Munch, president of the German Federal Crime Police Office, told Sueddeutsche Zeitung.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n In reaction, the German Parliament passed a new law, because, you know sexual assault isn’t illegal enough;<\/p>\n The new law will be based on the premise that \u201cno means no,\u201d meaning that sexual assault can be punished as rape if the offender ignores the \u201cdiscernible contrary will\u201d of the victim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n