Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, three million refugees have crossed the Ukrainian border and fled to other European countries to escape the fighting.
Most of them fled to neighboring Poland, and some refugees chose to continue westward, crossing Poland to Germany and settling temporarily in some cities hosting refugees.
However, with the influx of Ukrainian refugees, crimes against Ukrainian refugees in these host countries have gradually emerged.
Today, the police in the german city of Düsseldorf reported a heinous crime against Ukrainian refugees:
Not long ago, an 18-year-old Ukrainian girl was sexually assaulted by two Ukrainian men who were also refugees, and two criminals had just been arrested by the German police and were awaiting trial.
The sexual assault case took place on March 6, when the 18-year-old Ukrainian girl was reportedly staying with other refugees on a cruise ship called Oscar Wilde, which was converted by the local government into a temporary shelter for resettling refugees.
At least 25 refugees were resident on the cruise ship.
One of them, a 37-year-old and another 26-year-old, took turns sexually assaulting the 18-year-old Ukrainian girl and taking advantage of her lack of attention...
After the incident, the girl went to the police station to report the case, and the local police acted quickly and quickly arrested the two people.
After interrogation, the police found that the two were originally from Iraq and Nigeria, had emigrated to Ukraine to obtain citizenship, and now fled with refugees.
Two refugee men were immediately detained by the police pending trial.
In the Dusseldorf police station, however, they are not unique.
Because in recent times, there have been many Ukrainian criminals who have preyed on refugee compatriots.
In addition to the 18-year-old Ukrainian girl who was sexually assaulted, another young refugee man in Düsseldorf was also sexually assaulted by his compatriots.
After escaping to Düsseldorf, the Ukrainian man took up residence near the exhibition center.
Later, he went to visit the exhibition center and happened to meet two compatriot refugees who also came from Ukraine, both of whom held ukrainian and Moroccan passports at the same time.
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In the evening, the two fellow villagers invited him to drink, and the man lost consciousness after drinking some.
When he woke up, he found himself lying in the hospital ward, with severe pain coming from his lower body and genitals, and the man realized that he had been sexually assaulted by two fellow countrymen last night...
A number of cases of sexual assault of Ukrainian refugees have made many refugees feel that Düsseldorf is not safe, and some people have the idea of fleeing.
The 18-year-old Ukrainian girl who was sexually assaulted by refugees on the Oscar Wilde cruise ship made a U-turn and fled to Poland shortly after the assault.
But is Poland really safer than Germany?
The answer, of course, is no.
Just last week, a 19-year-old Ukrainian girl was sexually abused in Poland, according to media reports.
At the beginning of the war, the girl posted on the portal for help, and a 49-year-old man in Wroclaw, Poland, replied to the post, "enthusiastic" who claimed that he could take the girl in for a while.
So after the girl fled to Poland, she went to Wroclaw to defect to the man, but the man took the opportunity to sexually assault the girl under his own roof.
After the accident, the girl went to the police station to report the case, and the Polish police quickly arrested the man, who would face twelve years in prison.
Recently, Poland and Germany, two major countries that accept Ukrainian refugees, have frequently reported sexual crimes against female refugees.
The German and Polish governments, however, have a more worrying problem, which is trafficking in Ukrainian refugees.
In the past few days, German officials have also issued another warning:
Berlin's main train station, an important transportation hub for Ukrainian refugees, has been targeted by German traffickers.
Officials warned Ukrainian refugees, especially women and children, not to trust groups and individuals at train stations who claimed to be able to provide food, lodging, and money, as they were likely to be trafficked by traffickers to brothels or other human-criminal organizations.
In the railway station, many places posted notices in Ukrainian and Russian warning Ukrainian women and young refugees not to act alone, let alone accept help from suspicious people.
Although there have been no cases of trafficking in Ukrainian refugees in Germany and Poland so far, similar concerns are not unfounded.
Huschke Mau, a writer familiar with the German industry, said on this issue:
"The German government's concern is justified, knowing that 1.2 million people buy spring every day here, and Germany is the terminus of human trafficking in European countries."
"Traffickers are definitely eyeing Ukrainian refugees, and in their opinion, this group (especially women) can make a lot of money for them..."
With war raging in their homeland and the risk of sexual assault and trafficking in a foreign country, the life of Ukrainian refugees is ultimately a tragedy.
In the face of war, peace is precious,
May the war end soon and the refugees return to their homes and live a stable life...