Paris Attacks: German Police Arrested Man Enroute to France

Police had confirmed the arrest on November 5 during a routine check on a motorway, saying “many machine guns, revolvers and explosives” were found in the suspect’s vehicle.

The Montenegrin ambassador in Paris, Dragica Ponorac, told media that the French authorities had not informed her that any Montenegrin citizen was connected with the terror attacks in France. Le Petit Cambodge, adjacent to the Carillon bar, was the scene of another attack, which killed at least 12 people.

The Federal Police’s newly-created anti-terror unit should immediately be released from all other duties to focus on the threat of Islamic fundamentalism, Walter said.

German police officials are investigating if a man, arrested with firearms in the southern region of Bavaria last week, is linked to Friday’s Paris attacks that killed 127 people.

Responding to questions about the Paris attacks, Bavarian governor Horst Seehofer said: “In the course of spot checks we had an arrest where there are reasonable grounds to assume that there may be a link to the matter”.

Speaking after an emergency meeting of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s security cabinet in Berlin, de Maiziere said it was not known yet if the eight known perpetrators from the Paris attacks had accomplices. He is being held at Traunstein, a small city in the southeast of Bavaria, while investigations continue.

Analysis of the man’s navigation system found that he drove from Montenegro via Croatia, Slovenia and Austria to Germany.

Ludwig Waldinger declined to confirm reports by public broadcaster Bayrischer Rundfunk that the man appeared to be en route to Paris when he was arrested.

Rainer Wendt, chairman of the German Police Union, said security agencies appeared to have been tipped off that the man was planning to enter Germany.