AFP, BERLIN: Thirty-one suspects, including 18 asylum seekers, are under investigation for offences including assault and theft in Cologne on New Year’s Eve with the perpetrators of sexual assaults yet to be identified,Germany’s interior ministry said Friday. “Of the 31 suspects whose names are known, 18 have asylum seeker status,” said ministry spokesman Tobias Plate, citing federal police figures and indicating that their alleged offences were “mostly theft and causing bodily harm”. Federal police had recorded several com­plaints about sexual offences, but “the perpetrators for these have not been identified,” he said.