As many as 18 sex assaults are being investigated after five day festival

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Eighteen cases of sexual assault are being investigated by German police after the open air festival Breminale in Bremen.

Some incident were reported to the police by concerned passersby while in other cases victims contacted officers.

Police arrested six suspects during the five-day festival, who were all released on Monday.

Officers confirmed those taken into custody were “mostly” refugees from Afghanistan.

Teenagers as young as 17 said they were “hugged and groped” by groups of men on a busy dance floor.

A band who performed at the festival said they spotted the assaults from the stage.

They wrote on Facebook: ”While we were celebrating some sexist super-a*******s used the dancing crowd to corner, grope and harass female visitors of our concert. This is terrible".