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File photo: A crime scene specialist of the police looks out of window of an appartment n Wallenfels, southern Germany, where the bodies of infants were discovered  Photo: Getty Images The husband was questioned but was allowed to go free. Andrea G.'s current partner, 55, who had been arrested together with the woman, has also been cleared, according to police. The investigation is continuing, with results from autopsies on the babies expected in the next few days. Senior public prosecutor Martin Read more [...]

“The days of uncontrolled immigration and illegal entry can't continue just like that. Paris changes everything,” Soeder said in interview for the Welt am Sonntag newspaper.“It is unacceptable that we don’t know who arrives in Germany and what these people are doing. We must stop this by all means,” he added.The minister pointed out that if the EU fails to protect the bloc’s frontiers, Germany will be forced to guard its own borders. He added that when Berlin also fails, Bavaria will Read more [...]

BERLIN (AP) — A 51-year-old man arrested in Germany last week with weapons in his car may be linked to the Paris attacks, the governor of Bavaria said Saturday.A spokesman for Bavarian state police confirmed earlier Saturday that firearms, explosives and hand grenades were found when police stopped a man near the German-Austrian border on Nov. 5. Ludwig Waldinger declined to confirm reports by public broadcaster Bayrischer Rundfunk that the man appeared to be en route to Paris when he was arrested.Responding Read more [...]

Mr Söder, a member of the Christian Social Union (CSU) party which has been highly critical of German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s open-door policy, said Germany must secure its own borders if the EU fails to toughen up its external frontiers, echoing warnings from Horst Seehofer, the Bavarian state premier. “It can’t be that we don't know who is coming to Germany and what these people are doing here,” he said. “Not every refugee is an IS terrorist. But to believe that not a single civil Read more [...]

Bullet impacts are seen in cafe window as a man places a candle outside one of the attack sites in Paris, November 15, 2015. — Reuters picMUNICH, Nov 15 — A man arrested in Germany with explosives and Kalashnikovs in his car said he was on his way to Paris “to see the Eiffel Tower” and refused to discuss the jihadist attacks, police said today. “We want to talk (about the Paris attacks) with him but he doesn’t want to talk. Read more [...]

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 Read more [...]

Ignoring a call by German ministers against a knee-jerk reaction following Friday night's attacks in Paris, Bavarian State Premier Horst Seehofer has warned that the tragedy demanded stricter border controls. He asked federal and state governments to ensure "greater control not just of Europe's borders but also the national borders." Given the high level of immigration to Germany "we need to know who drives through our country," Seehofer added, pointing to a recent arrest at the Bavarian border. German Read more [...]

A man arrested in Germany's southern state of Bavaria in early November after weapons and explosives have been present in his automotive could also be linked to Friday's lethal assault in Paris, Bavaria's state premier stated on Saturday.Responding to questions about the Paris attacks, Bavarian governor Horst Seehofer said: "In the course of spot checks we had an arrest where there are reasonable grounds to assume that there may be a link to the matter".Documents uncovered during the arrest indicate Read more [...]

Ludwig Waldinger declined to confirm reports by public broadcaster Bayrischer Rundfunk that the man appeared to be en route to Paris when he was arrested.A spokesman for the Bavarian police stated they arrested the fifty one-yr-previous on November 5 on a motorway close to the city of Rosenheim after investigators discovered eight machine weapons, a number of handguns and explosives in his VW Golf.Earlier today, state premier Horst Seehofer said that there was "reason to believe" that the suspect Read more [...]