Parliament examines new year Cologne

cologne - A parliamentary inquiry committee of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia will investigate the series of incidents during the last New Year's celebration in Cologne. The committee was installed Thursday by the state parliament.

One of the questions that need answering this research is why the police did not prevent large groups of men, hundreds of women were able to harass the square in front of Central Station. The police received more than a thousand reports of women who reported being harassed, robbed and / or assaulted.

The chairman of the committee, Peter Biesenbach, announced that several prominent politicians be heard. Among them the Prime Minister Hannelore Kraft of the state and its Minister for the Interior Ralf Jäger. Monday visit the committee to begin the square of the disaster.