A German top cop said women wearing tights at the Cologne sex attacks saved them from rape

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Police Commissioner Sonja E., 26, was giving evidence before a fact-finding investigative committee of the state parliament in Dusseldorf when she made the statement about the everyday apparel sparing women from horrendous ordeals.

The policewoman, whose surname was withheld in the public hearing, told how she helped four victims near the entrance to Cologne Cathedral on the night of the attacks in and around the central station.

"They broke down completely and just wept," she said. "They were completely overwhelmed."