Berlin – Prosecutors in the southern German city of Stuttgart confirmed on Friday they had arrested a 34-year-old man on suspicion of arms dealing.
They however declined to comment on a report that he may have supplied the militants who attacked Paris with four guns.
“I can confirm that a man is in custody on suspicion of arms trading,” a spokesman for the prosecutor in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg told newsmen, adding that the arrest was made on Tuesday.
Earlier on Friday, media report said that the man was suspected of selling four weapons to the militants who killed 130 people in Paris on Nov. 13.
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The paper said four assault rifles, two AK-47s made in China and two Zasatva M70s made in the former Yugoslavia were sold online by the man on Nov. 7 to a buyer of “Arab descent.”
Four emails found on the man’s smartphone indicate that he was in touch with an “Arab in Paris”, the report said (Reuters/NAN)