In what may have been a warning of the Paris terrorist attacks, police in Germany last week arrested a mysterious 51-year-old man driving a auto filled with weapons and explosives near the border of Germany and Austria – arms that according to reports in the German media were “professionally hidden” inside the vehicle.

“Barbaric killer” had killed innocent people in an unimaginable way in Paris and that his heart was “heavy with grief”, said the minister.

“We have an arrest through the dragnet, where there are reasonable grounds for presuming that it might be related to the matter”, Horst Seehofer said in a speech at a local party congress of the Christian Democrats.

Mr Waldinger said: “He has refused to say what he planned to do or where the weapons came from”.

The latest on shootings and explosions in Paris. However, Waldinger added: “We are providing no further information at this point”. “That the French authorities were informed about this is totally clear”, Wendt told the station N-TV.

Conservative leaders in Germany insisted on linking the terror attacks in Paris on Friday night to the country’s own refugee crisis, with calls emerging on Saturday for a crackdown at German borders.

The German football federation (DFB) says the team landed back in Frankfurt on Saturday morning.

Germany is due to play the Netherlands in Hannover on Tuesday but has delayed its journey.

Team manager Oliver Bierhoff said the squad’s “thoughts are with the victims and their families”.