About 450 supporters of the anti-Islam PEGIDA movement were facing off with 1,300 counter-demonstrators behind the city's main train station on Saturday, police said.
After bottles and firecrackers were hurled at officials, police cancelled the march by the far-right groups, a spokeswoman said. Police used water canon to disperse protesters.
The attacks on New Year’s Eve caused tensions in Germany because the victims described the offenders as "foreigners" and "migrants", of which the country has accepted about 1.1 million this year - more than any other European nation.
Cologne’s federal police have said they received 170 criminal complaints connected to the New Year's festivities, including 120 cases of sexual assaults.
The German government said 31 suspects were briefly detained for questioning. Eighteen of them were asylum seekers.
The detained included nine Algerians, eight Moroccans, five Iranians, four Syrians, two Germans and one person each from Iraq, Serbia and the US...
aljazeera.com
9/1/16
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