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BERLIN (Reuters) – German police on Tuesday confirmed that the man who took a woman hostage in the western city of Cologne on Monday was a 55-year-old Syrian man who arrived in Germany in 2015.
FILE PHOTO: German Police walk near the main train station in Cologne, Germany, October 15, 2018, after the train station was closed after hostage-taking. REUTERS/Thilo Schmuelgen
Senior Cologne police official Klaus-Stephan Becker told a news conference that a Syrian passport found at the scene of the hostage-taking belonged to the man, who had been granted refugee status.
Cologne deputy police president Miriam Brauns said the man was in a coma following emergency surgery so could not be interrogated.
Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Maria Sheahan
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