German Police Detain Six for Attempting to Climb Cologne Cathedral

BERLIN (AP) – German police in Cologne on Sunday detained five Frenchmen and a Belgian woman who had tried to climb the city’s famous cathedral.

Police said they were informed by the church’s private security guards who spotted the young climbers with headlamps on their surveillance cameras in the middle of the night.

Police officers in riot gear surrounded the cathedral and a helicopter hovered over the northern dome, until the five climbers were detained inside the tower’s stairwell. Authorities said the men were aged between 18 and 27 years, the woman was 26. Their identities were not revealed in line with German privacy rules.

Police confiscated a camera, a cellphone and a lock pick. During their search of the building, they discovered several doors

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