Germany reports 3 arrests related to Paris

Aachen is close to Germany’s border with Belgium and the Netherlands.

As French and Belgian officials expand the probe into the deadly Paris attacks last week, German authorities are investigating claims that an Algerian man warned fellow migrants last week of an imminent attack in Paris.

– Seven of the attackers in Friday’s attacks have been identified, while police are still searching for the eight: 26-year-old Belgian Salah Abdeslam.

Austrian authorities say Abdeslam entered Austria from Germany September 9 – four days before the attacks – with two companions.

Police later arrested two more persons in the town.

“We have received hints that one of the suspects searched for, in connection to Paris possibly stayed in our region”, the spokesman said. Including properties in the suburbs of Paris. “According to the investigation they are not the people we are looking for”.

He stressed that there was further concern that one of the culprits fled to the neighboring country of France.

His Socialist government has pledged to raise spending on national security, increase airstrikes against Islamist strongholds in Syria, and adopt a national security package in response to the deadliest attack the nation has faced since World War II.

The age or nationality of the suspects is not known at this time.

After the attacks, Abdeslam slipped through France’s fingers, with French police accidentally permitting him to cross into Belgium on Saturday.

France and Russian Federation both staged air strikes on Islamic State targets in northern Syria on Tuesday (Wednesday NZT) as Paris formally requested European Union assistance in its fight against the group behind the carnage in Paris.