FILE - The Cologne cathedral is illuminated in Cologne ... Their identities were not revealed in line with German privacy rules. Police confiscated a camera, a cellphone and a lock pick.

German police in Cologne have detained five Frenchmen and a Belgian woman who had tried to climb the city’s famous 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 ... not revealed in line with German privacy ...