Eighteen women said they were sexually harassed at a music festival in the city of Darmstadt in the southern part of the Rhine-Main in Germany. The attacks are reminiscent to those reported in Cologne and other German cities on New Year’s Eve when nearly 1,000 women were groped and robbed by Muslim migrants. Three Pakistani men, between the ages of 28 and 31, have been arrested, while German police are still looking for more men that might have been involved.

Three women said they had been groped during the Schlossgrabenfest music festival in the Darmstadt on Saturday, when a group of men encircled them, a practice used in the Cologne attacks. On Tuesday 15 more women came out and made more complaints of being sexually harassed at the festival. The men arrested are reportedly asylum seekers from Pakistan.

The Cologne incident had grabbed global media attention, not only for the sexual assaults themselves, but also because German media had intentionally avoided covering the incident during a period when German Chancellor Merkel was trying to convince the German public that migrants could be assimilated into German society.