MOSCOW (Sputnik) — Germany is investigating links between the perpetrators who attacked Paris in 2015 and three Islamic State (ISIL or Daesh) suspects arrested earlier in the day, German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, German police special forces arrested three Daesh suspects in northern Schleswig-Holstein federal state. According to the initial investigation, the suspects moved from Syria to Germany in November 2015 in order to carry out an attack or to await further instructions on behalf of the Daesh.
Fake Syrian passports of the suspects originated "from the same workshop in Syria" as Paris attackers, de Maiziere said at the press conference, as quoted by Spiegel magazine.
On July 24, a Syrian refugee exploded a bomb outside a music festival in Bavaria’s Ansbach, killing himself and wounding 15 bystanders, while another Syrian killed a woman with a machete in Reutlingen near Stuttgart. The Daesh extremist group, banned in Russia, claimed responsibility for the bombing.
On November 13, Islamic terrorists conducted a series of coordinated attacks in Paris, killing 130 people and injuring over 360. The Daesh group, outlawed in Russia and many other countries, claimed responsibility for the attack.
