Paris massacre cops arrest German arms dealer, as 800 'ISIS weapons' seized
GUNS used by the Islamic State extremists who carried out the Paris massacre could have come from a German arms dealer, it has emerged.
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Belgian police stand guard in BrusselsNow police in Germany are investigating whether the weapons were bought from an underground arms dealer trading on the "dark web" which does not show up on internet searches.
The German news channel N-TV says the dealer is a 34-year-old man from Magstadt, a town in Germany’s Baden-Wuttemberg state.
He is reported to have attracted the attention of authorities over illegal arms sales earlier this year and was arrested on Monday.
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Police
seized his phone and are believed to have found a reference to the sale
of four Kalishnikov rifles to “Arabs in Paris”, N-TV reported.
News
of the arrest comes after police seized a shipment of 800 shotguns
moving from Turkey to Belgium, two countries linked to recent Islamic
State-inspired terror plots, sparking fears weapons are continuing to be
smuggled across Europe.
A huge manhunt is continuing in Belgium to find several terrorists who are linked to co-ordinated shootings and bombings in Paris earlier this month.
It
remains unclear where the cache of weapons was heading but authorities
in Italy, where the haul was discovered, warned of the risk that it
could end up in ISIS' hands.
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People walk past a military truck near Grand Place, Brussels
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Pump action shotgun
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The
shipment of 781 Winchester SXP pump-action shotguns - described as the
fastest pump-action rifles on the market - was intercepted in the
northeastern city of Trieste, close to the border with Slovenia.
Pump-action
rifles are made for hunting and are not considered assault weapons, but
were found after police had "substantially" increased their border
inspections in the wake of the Paris attacks and subsequent alert in
Belgium.
Lt Gen Gabriele Baron said the shipment
had not been properly declared to authorities under laws aimed at
preventing arms trafficking.
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