A spokesman for Bavarian state police confirmed earlier that firearms, explosives and hand grenades were found when officers stopped a man near the Austrian border on November 5.

German authorities are looking into a possible link between the Paris attacks and the arrest in Bavaria last week of a man with a car-load of weapons and explosives.

“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.

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Police said there was evidence the man was on his way to Paris, and he was caught during a traffic stop, the affiliate reported.

The vehicle wasn’t only being driven west. Bavarian interior minister Joachim Herrmann has confirmed that based on “the data of the man’s [GPS] navigation system, and his cell phone there is strong evidence that the man wanted to go to France”.

“That the French authorities were informed about this is totally clear”, he added. Investigators in Germany say that the link between the arrested individual and the devastating Paris attacks on Friday, November 13, remains unclear – and the suspect is not helping with any information, keeping his mouth shut and refusing to answer questions from investigators.

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

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