GENEVA (AP) — The Latest on Europe’s migration crisis (all times local):
4:05 p.m.
A 25-year-old firefighter has confessed to an arson attack on a German home for asylum-seekers, saying he thought of all refugees as criminals.
The man told the Hagen state court, as his trial for attempted murder opened Tuesday, that he set fire to gasoline in the attic of the home in October over fears about burglaries, thefts, violent crimes and sexual attacks, the dpa news agency reported.
The fire only smoldered and none of the seven Syrian refugees living in the home were harmed.
The firefighter, whose name wasn’t released in …read more
Source: KXAN
