Ten Years After Germany's Most Infamous Night Of Sexual Violence, Women Still Aren't Safe In Cologne
A popular German streamer was struck twice by projectiles during a New Year’s Eve livestream in Cologne, Germany — exactly a decade after more than 1,000 women reported sexual assault complaints involving migrants at the same celebration.
Kunshikitty, who has over 200,000 followers, was broadcasting from the festival when a man standing roughly a foot away hurled an object that struck her in the head. Video from the 16-hour stream shows the streamer, wearing a bright pink outfit, stumbling backward and clutching her head as the man disappears into the crowd. (RELATED: Migrant Mobs Rampage Through European Cities In New Year’s Eve Chaos)
“Ow, ow, I’ve been hit by something. I’ve been hit on the head by something,” she said.
“I think if I were a two-meter-tall bouncer, they wouldn’t have done that,” she added before being struck by another projectile.
On New Year’s Eve 2015, more than 1,000 women in Cologne reported being sexually assaulted by predominantly African and Middle Eastern men, according to Le Monde.
In one city square, hundreds of migrants surrounded women in the crowd, groping them while shielded by anonymity. Police reports compiled by Le Monde detailed the attacks: one victim was “surrounded by a group of five thugs who circled her and tried to put a hand under her skirt.” Another report stated that a suspect “tried to insert his finger into the vagina, but failed because of the tights.” A third survivor was “surrounded by a group of 15 men, someone pinched her crotch.”
In total, 1,210 complaints were filed that night, half of them for sexual assault. Despite the scale of the attacks, only one person was convicted, according to Le Monde.
New Year’s Eve in Cologne, where invaders infamously sexually assaulted a decade ago, streamer ‘Kunshikitty’ wanted to prove that women can “go out safely.”
She was attacked live on air by the invaders.
Mass deportations 2026
pic.twitter.com/k0mLOhmmHH— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) January 1, 2026
The assaults, coupled with government inaction and local media’s initial refusal to report on the attacks, sparked a decade of debate over migrant assimilation in Germany and Europe.
Not much has changed since.
In 2024, Germany’s population with a “migrant background” — first- or second-generation immigrants — reached 21.2 million people, or 25.6% of the population, according to Xinhua. Since the Cologne attacks, war-torn countries like Syria and Afghanistan have ranked among the top five origin countries for asylum applicants in Germany, according to the Federal Agency for Civic Education.
The agency found that asylum seeker origin countries have remained “remarkably stable since 2017,” with Afghanistan, Eritrea, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Nigeria, Russia, Somalia, Syria and Turkey dominating the list. Most asylum seekers are young men.