One man was arrested inside a flat; the other outside his home. Cologne police and prosecutors described those separate arrests in a joint statement on 2 October, alleging a plan to fire on a building or a person.

The suspects were aged 19 and 20, and the arrests took place in Cologne-Mülheim that Friday afternoon. The official account says neither resisted. Radio Köln corroborated the reported arrests and the allegation that serious firearms violence was being planned.

Investigators withheld details about the intended target and anyone who might have commissioned the alleged attack, citing the ongoing inquiry. That leaves material questions unanswered. This article does not name a target, attribute a motive or connect the suspects to other attacks without evidence.

This is a report of arrests and allegations, not a conviction or an account of a completed shooting. The source statement is dated 2 October; it was reviewed for this edition on 5 October. No newer judicial outcome was established in this check.