Three North African migrants throw stones at two transgender German women
Three teenagers of North African origin have been arrested
in connection to the alleged assault of two transgender women in the German
city of Dortmund.
Named only by their first names as Yasmine and Elisa, the
two victims said that they were verbally abused and threatened with stones by
the men near the city's main train station last Monday.
The attackers allegedly said they were going to stone the
two women before a police officer intervened.
Elisa, 37, and
Jasmin, 50, said that the men spoke to them in Arabic and said they needed to
stone 'such people', according to the German media organisation Breitbart.
'Within seconds we were tossed around…and they took stones
from a gravel bed on the corner and threw them at us,' said one of the alleged
victims.
The two women said
that their attackers tried to grab their hair and breasts during the
confrontation.
One of the girls claimed that the men picked up a handful of
gravel and tried to throw it directly at the two of them.
The suspects abandoned their attack on their victim and were
arrested by a police officer.
Speaking on the German broadcast channel Sat 1, one of the
victims spoke of their disgust of the nature of the attack.
'This is barbaric what they have done, they were
barbarians!' said Jasmine.
Following a police investigation, it was revealed that two
of the teenagers are known to police for past offences.
The three North Africans have been put into custody,
according to a police statement.