Berlin: German officials have said they are investigating whether a 51-year-old man arrested in Bavaria last week is linked to the Paris attacks, even as police in his home country of Montenegro rejected a possible connection.
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Thomas de Maiziere, Germany's interior minister, said French authorities were informed of the arrest shortly after the man was detained with a stash of weapons and explosives in his car near the Austrian border on November 5.
<img title="German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere addresses the press at the Interior ministry in Berlin on November 14, 2015, a day after deadly attacks in Paris. AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ" src="http://images.mid-day.com/images/2015/nov/germany-france-probe.jpg" alt="German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere addresses the press at the Interior ministry in Berlin on November 14, 2015, a day after deadly attacks in Paris. AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ" /> German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere addresses the press at the Interior ministry in Berlin on November 14, 2015, a day after deadly attacks in Paris. AFP PHOTO / TOBIAS SCHWARZ
The man's navigation device contained an address in Paris, he said. "There is a connection to France but it's not certain that there is a link to this attack," said de Maiziere. Bavarian governor Horst Seehofer told reporters that "there are reasonable grounds to assume that there may be a link to the matter."
He did not elaborate. Police in Montenegro said German police informed them they arrested a 51-year-old Montenegrin citizen with "a certain quantity of arms and ammunition" in his car, which was registered in the Balkan country's capital, Podgorica.
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"We checked this information and found that 51-year old V V from Podgorica is not known to the police as the perpetrator of serious crimes or violations of public order," Montenegro police spokeswoman Tamara Popovic said in a statement.

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