A 65-year-old Lebanese man suspected of involvement in the hijacking of an American airliner in 1985 has been arrested in Greece, police say.
The man, who has not been named, was detained on Mykonos after disembarking from a cruise ship on Thursday.
- UPDATE Greek authorities said early on Tuesday that the arrest of a Lebanese man on suspicion of participation in a TWA flight hijacking in 1985 was a case of mistaken identity. The 65-year-old was released without charges and was being put up at a hotel on the Aegean Sea island of Syros, where he had been detained the past four days, a police statement said.
His identity came up as being wanted by Germany during a passport check.
The TWA Flight 847 was seized by militants thought to belong to the Islamist group Hezbollah, a claim they denied. A US navy diver was killed.
The man was wanted by German authorities for the hijacking as well as a kidnapping committed in 1987.
He is currently being held in a high-security prison in Greece until German officials identify him as the person wanted, Reuters news agency reports.
