Paris: five arrests near German-Belgian border

ALSDORF: -- Five people have been arrested in Germany in connection with last Friday’s attacks in Paris.

At least three of those detained in the city of Aachen are thought to be foreign nationals.

Two women and one man were arrested outside a job centre in Alsdorf, a small town near Aachen and close to Germany’s border with Belgium and the Netherlands.

Two more people were arrested in the town later on.

A manhunt is underway in France and Belgium for one of the eight attackers involved in the wave of killings that left scores dead and injured.

The focus is on Belgian-born Frenchman Salah Abdeslam. Investigators say he fled back to Belgium last Saturday after the attacks.


-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2015-11-18

If I am interpreting the news correctly, ethnic profiling is being used again by law enforcement agencies. This is a major step forward, in that agencies have been allowed to identify the enemy - not before time I would add.

German newspapers reported that somebody believed to have seen Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in the Paris terrorist attacks. Police approached the man who was accompanied by two women only to find out that it was not Abdeslam. In the afternoon police arrested four more persons, but Abdeslam was not among them. I guess, all that does not count as "ethnic profiling".

BTW: All persons were released later that afternoon.

Edited November 18, 201510 yr by jope

I think racial profiling is just plain wrong ... BUT

The men who launched a commando attack against unaware civilians in Paris

were not white men with funny American accents wearing white robes and hoods ... so that rules out the Klu Klux Klan

were not raggedy black guys wearing skull caps ... so that rules out Boco Haram and Al-Shabaab

were not some bald headed Asian guys wearing orange robes ... so that rules out Buddhist monks