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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has proposed changes to make it easier to deport asylum-seekers who commit crimes, after the New Year’s Eve sex attacks on women in Cologne.
The attacks, which victims say were carried out by men of North African and Arab appearance, have called into question her open-door migrant policy.
The police’s handling of the events has also been sharply criticised.
The anti-immigrant Pegida movement is holding a protest in Cologne.
As Pegida members filed out of the main station, a police cordon separated them from a left-wing counter-demonstration. There have also been protests about violence against women.