Police do not rule out terror in hostage cologne

cologne - The police take into account that the man who hosted a woman on Monday in Cologne had a terrorist motive. The hostage taker would have said during the hijacking that he belonged to Islamic State (IS), the authorities said during a press conference. He would also have demanded the release of a Tunisian woman.

The man threw a Molotov cocktail at a snack bar and he hosted a woman in the pharmacy of the central station. In the pharmacy the police found blue camping gas bottles that were attached to each other with adhesive tape. Fire accelerator was also found.