German police find rifles used in Paris attacks and foil plans for Dortmunt attack

Four assault rifles used in the deadly Paris attacks were allegedly purchased from a German arms dealer, reports German tabloid Bild. German police arrested 24-year-old Sascha W. from the southern city of Magstadt on suspicion of being involved in an illegal weapons trade.

The newspaper quoted documents from the Stuttgart prosecutor’s office, stating that the two AK47s and two Zastava M70s were sold on November 7 by the arms dealer to a customer in Paris. Four e-mails on his smartphone show that he had sold four Kalashnikovs to an Arab in Paris.

The French police believe that these weapons may have been the ones used in the Paris attacks.

More arrests

On Thursday, two people were arrested in Berlin on suspicion of having links with the Islamic State. They are believed to have been planning an attack in the western city of Dortmund.

German newspaper Tagesspiegel reported that the two men are from Syria and Tunisia, with links to ISIS. The paper said that the two men, aged 28 and 46, were suspected of planning an attack and had searched a cultural center as part of their plans.

Tagesspiegel reports that German security forces had suspected that ISIS was eyeing an attack on the west German city of Dortmund from Berlin.