VOA慢速英语2016 德国官员怀疑18名难民卷入新年袭击事件（在线收听）

AS IT IS 2016-01-09 German Officials Suspect 18 Asylum Seekers in New Year's Attacks 德国官员怀疑18名难民卷入新年袭击事件

German officials say 18 asylum-seekers are among the suspects in thefts and sexual assaults on women in Cologne on New Year's Eve.

德国官方称在科隆新年前夕的盗窃和性侵妇女案中有18名嫌犯是难民。

Interior Ministry official Tobias Plate spoke to reporters Friday morning. He said police have identified 31 suspects. Eighteen had earlier requested asylum in Germany.

内政部官员托拜厄斯·普拉特周五早上告诉记者，他说警方已经确认了31名嫌犯的身份，其中有18人早些时候在德国请求庇护。

Plate said two of the 31 suspects are German. Nine are Algerian, eight are from Morocco, five are Iranian, and four are Syrians. The remaining three are from Iraq, Serbia and the United States.

普拉特称在这31名嫌犯中有两人是德国人，9人是阿尔及利亚人，8人来自摩洛哥，5人是伊朗人，4人是叙利亚人，其他3人来自伊拉克、塞尔维亚和美国。

Police have documented 32 criminal acts. Plate said the large majority were tied to theft and physical injury. Three were tied to sexual assaults.

警方已经记录了32起刑事犯罪案，普莱特称大多数与盗窃和人身伤害有关，还有三起性侵案。

Also Friday, officials forced the police chief of Cologne to retire. He had faced growing criticism of the way his department dealt with the New Year’s Eve attacks.

同时在周五，官方迫使科隆警察局长辞职，他的部门因处理新年前夕袭击案不力面临越来越多的批评。

About 1,000 men had gathered near Cologne's main train station around midnight, throwing fireworks. After police moved in to stop them, smaller groups of men began surrounding women in the area. They reportedly groped the women and stole from them.

当时午夜时分，大约1000人聚集在科隆主要火车站投掷爆竹，警察前来阻止后，有一小群人开始包围现场的妇女，据悉他们对这些妇女搜身并偷窃了她们。

A policewoman said she was among those attacked.

一名女警察称自己也被袭击了。

About 90 people have filed criminal complaints, including one report of a rape.

大约90人提起刑事诉讼，其中包括一桩强奸案。

The assaults have intensified the debate over Germany's immigration policies. Some 1.1 million people registered as asylum seekers in Germany last year.

袭击事件使得人们对于德国移民政策的争论变得更加激烈，去年有大约110万人在德国以难民身份登记。

Both Germany’s chancellor and its justice minister have called for the perpetrators to be punished.

德国总理和司法部长都呼吁惩治作恶者。

On Thursday, the German justice minister said any asylum-seekers among the suspects could be deported if found guilty.

周四，德国司法部长称将驱逐嫌犯中的任何有罪难民。

Words in This Story

assault – n. the crime of trying or threatening to hurt someone physically?

grope – v. to touch (someone) in an unwanted and unexpected sexual way?

complaint – n.a formal charge saying that someone has done something wrong?

perpetrator – v. the doer of something that is illegal or wrong

deport – v. to force a person to leave a country ?of which she or he is not a citizen