Germany arrests 3 suspects linked to Paris attackers

Three IS suspects arrested by German police on Tuesday morning were brought to the country with the same help that last year’s Paris attackers had got.

Three Syrian men have been arrested in Germany on suspicion of being sent by so-called Islamic State (IS) to launch attacks, prosecutors say. ARD television said they were held after raids at refugee housing in towns north of Hamburg.

Germany has been on heightened alert since attacks claimed by Islamic State earlier this year. It cautioned that they had discovered no evidence of “concrete orders or instructions” given to the three men.

Two of their travelling companions killed themselves with suicide bombs outside the Stade de France stadium in Paris on November 13 past year.

The three detained men were all Syrian nationals and apparently used the same migrant trafficking network to travel from Syria into Europe.

Defected or captured ISIS members have detailed the secretive Emni group at the heart of the ISIS organization that plans and prepares worldwide attacks, such as the Paris assault in November 2015. There, he received weapons and explosives training. In October 2015, the three accused pledged to go to Europe, the prosecutor’s office alleges.

ISIS allegedly provided them with passports, more than $1,000 in cash and mobile phones with a special communications program.

Khazzani was connected through associates to Paris attack coordinator Abdelhamid Abaaoud, according to French investigative documents obtained by CNN.

Police operation in Saint Denis, near Paris on November 18, 2015, five day after Paris terror attacks. As of now, details on where said attacks are purported to take place remain unclear.

European officials told CNN they believe ISIS is ratcheting up its planning for worldwide attacks to retaliate for losses in Syria, Iraq and Libya.

‘But it’s even more hard to uncover the fanatical lone wolves.

“Some operatives are working on their own; others are spontaneously inspired by other attacks, then there are returnees from crisis zones”, De Maizière said, adding there were also “hit teams” who travelled from the Middle East to Europe with a view to carrying out attacks.