Untrained refugees were deployed as security personnel on New Year’s Eve in Cologne last year, according to a secret police report.
It said many abandoned their posts and at least one was so drunk he could not work.
Last year mobs of mostly North African men sexually assaulted and robbed hundreds of women in and around the city’s main railway station as police totally lost control of the situation.
On the night 59 asylum seekers were stationed on bridges across the Rhine to assist in a mammoth security operation aimed at stopping any trouble.
On September 7, 2015 authorities made the decision to give some refugees a role in the policing of the celebrations—a fact which has only just emerged. ...