GETTY Migrants chased three teenage girls through a shopping centre in Germany

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The gang, believed to be from Afghanistan, were filming the three youngsters aged 15, 16 and 17 on their mobile phones at the Sophienhof shopping centre in Kiel, northern Germany. Anxious passers-by, who were concerned that the mob might attack someone, called police who scrambled to the scene.

But some police officers were left injured after they were attacked by some of the group who became violent. Four men were arrested but three later released without charge.

The news comes amid reports some young girls in the area had reported being harassed and shoppers molested by migrants with stores also reporting an increase in thefts. Interior Minister Stefan Studt said the incident was “unacceptable” and Germans should be able to live “freely in this country”.

GETTY The Sophienhof shopping centre in Kiel, Germany

GETTY Migrant men gather around a German train station

Free Democratic Party spokesman Wolfgang Kubickisaid the latest incident involving migrants should be a “wake up call” that the country’s open border immigration policy was not working. He said “parallel societies” are being established in Germany as a direct results of the influx of migrants and said the “opposite of integration” was taking place.

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