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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...-with-you.html

The Cologne police chief was removed from his post on Friday amid growing public anger at his handling of the sex attacks in the city on New Year’s Eve.

Wolfang Albers was told he was being suspended from duty as allegations continue to mount of a police cover-up of asylum-seekers’ involvement in the attacks.

Ralf Jäger,the interior minister of North Rhine-Westphalia state, said his decision to suspend Mr Albers was “necessary to regain the public’s trust”.

More than 170 women have now filed criminal complaints over the incidents, 113 of them for sexual assaults.

Reports of similar sexual assaults on women during New Year’s Eve celebrations are emerging across northern Europe.

In Finland, three asylum-seekers have been arrested over incidents in the capital, Helsinki. Police said they had received information that groups of asylum-seekers planned to harass women in the city.

In Sweden, 15 women reported being sexually assaulted in the city of Kalmar on New Year’s Eve. Two asylum-seekers have been arrested in connection with the assaults.

In Switzerland, police in Zurich said six women reported being sexually assaulted and robbed in cases “a little similar” to those in Germany.
There have been reports of similar attacks in cities across Germany and in neighbouring Austria.