A former German soldier who took hostages using a fake weapon in January and was shot by police in a café in the southern city of Ulm began trial with a confession on Monday. The 44-year-old defendant apologized in court through his defence lawyer on Monday, who said he hadn’t intended to hurt anyone else and wanted to commit suicide by being killed by police. The man threatened hostages in the café with a deceptively real-looking fake weapon on January 26. Officers from a special police unit shot him in the face and upper body when he stepped outside about an hour and a half into the standoff…