Three Syrian men arrested at refugee shelters in Germany on Tuesday were suspected Islamic State members who appear to have been brought into the country by the same network that smuggled militants into France to carry out deadly attacks last November, German authorities have said. “Everything points to the fact that the same smuggler organisation behind the Paris attacks also brought the three men to Germany,” the German interior minister, Thomas de Maizière, told a press conference. He warned against regarding all refugees as suspected terrorists, saying: “It is wrong to put refugees under general suspicion. But the fact is we do have refugees who come here as potential terrorists or sympathisers.” He said the police welcomed any information about any suspected terrorists. Police say they have received about 400 tipoffs from people voicing suspicions that refugees were planning terrorist attacks.

Source: The Guardian September 13, 2016 12:15 UTC