Austria Holding Two French Citizens Over Paris Attacks

Local newspaper the Salzburger Nachrichten alleges the men had come into contact with the Paris attackers in Austria, having arrived with false passports.

AUSTRIAN police have arrested two people with suspected links to the November Paris attacks, prosecutors said, with an Austrian newspaper reporting the two are French citizens posing as refugees.

Austria’s Kronen Zeitung reported that the suspects are French, with Algerian or Pakistani heritage, and were awaiting orders for further terror attacks.

According to the prosecutors’ office, two people were arrested over the past few days at a Salzburg shelter for refugees.

They were arrested on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist organisation.

He did confirm that “indications of a possible link to the Paris attacks are now being investigated”.

It is the same method used by at least two of the Isis militants who killed 130 people in Paris last month to reach their target. The Austrian interior ministry and the Austrian police also declined to comment.

Eight other people have been identified as taking part in the attacks, including one unidentified suspect.