On New Year’s Day 2016, the world woke up to news that the night before around a thousand migrants had swarmed Cologne’s city centre and sexually assaulted hundreds of women. As the horrifying truth of what occurred that evening slowly began to emerge over the course of the following week, people both in Germany and beyond responded with shock. A decade on, it is now clear that the Cologne sex attacks were a pivotal moment in Europe’s history.
