A man arrested in Germany’s southern state of Bavaria in early November after guns and explosives were found in his car may be linked to Friday's deadly assault in Paris, Bavaria's state premier said yesterday.

“We have an arrest... 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.

Germany’s Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said the 51-year-old from Montenegro had an address in Paris as destination in his vehicle navigation system and that as far as he knew the French authorities had been informed about it.

“Whether that means there is a connection (to the attacks) or not is being investigated,” de Maiziere said after an emergency meeting of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s security cabinet in Berlin.

A spokesman for the Bavarian police said the man had been arrested on November 5 on a motorway near the town of Rosenheim after investigators found eight machine guns, several handguns and explosives in his VW Golf. He is being held at Traunstein, a small city in the southeast of Bavaria, while investigations continue.

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