Two group arrested in Germany ‘not tied to Brussels attacks’

A 28-year-old Moroccan male was arrested on Wednesday evening after being stopped during a slight temperament check during Giessen railway station, north of Frankfurt.

His mobile phone was primarily suspicion to enclose a name of Khalid el Bakraoui, who Belgian officials contend blew himself up on Tuesday at a Maalbeek metro hire in Brussels, Berlin open broadcaster RBB reported, citing intelligence sources.

It has been reported that a arrested male was in fact exchanging messages with someone with a name spelt roughly a same as Bakraoui’s.

He stays in control for other offences, according to a bureau of the German sovereign prosecutor obliged for terrorism cases, though is no longer suspected of links to a attacks.

Another man, a supporter of a ultra-conservative Salafi aria of Islam, was arrested Thursday in a Düsseldorf segment in western Germany on suspicion of links to one of a Bakraoui brothers.

A hunt of his residence and workplace along with inspection of his mobile phone failed to furnish any justification restraining him to a attacks in Belgium that killed 31 and harmed 340, military told a DPA news agency.

The male stays in apprehension tentative serve inquiries, military added.

“We so distant have no discernible denote to advise a dual group have something to do with a Brussels attacks,” pronounced a mouthpiece for the prosecutor’s office.