--- description: E-mails on the suspect's smartphone show that he was in touch with an "Arab in Paris" title: Germany Arrests Man Who May Have Sold Guns in Paris Attacks image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Man Who May Have Sold Guns to Paris Attackers Arrested in Germany by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 27, 2015 3:33 PM CUT by [Tara John](/author/tara-john/) ## Tara John Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Nov 27, 2015 3:33 PM CUT A 34-year-old-man has been arrested on suspicion of arms dealing on Tuesday in the southern city of Stuttgart, Germany, say prosecutors. They however did not confirm a report by the German newspaper _Bild_ that he may have supplied four guns to the attackers in Paris who killed 130 people on Nov. 13. “I can confirm that a man is in custody on suspicion of arms trading,” [a spokesman for the prosecutor in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg told _Reuters_](http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/11/27/uk-france-shooting-germany-idUKKBN0TG0K420151127 "undefined"). _Bild_ said earlier on Friday that four assault rifles, including two two AK-47s made in [China](http://uk.reuters.com/places/china "undefined") and two Zasatva M70s made in the former Yugoslavia, were sold online by the man to a buyer of “Arab descent.” E-mails on the suspect’s smartphone show that he was in touch with an “Arab in Paris,” wrote[ the _Bild_](http://www.bild.de/bild-plus/politik/ausland/waffen/aus-pariser-terror-nacht-stammen-aus-deutschland-43565470,var=a,view=conversionToLogin.bild.html "undefined"). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4128129/germany-guns-paris-attacks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4128129/germany-guns-paris-attacks/"},"headline":"Man Who May Have Sold Guns to Paris Attackers Arrested in Germany","datePublished":"2015-11-27T15:33:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T12:55:49.029Z","description":"E-mails on the suspect's smartphone show that he was in touch with an \"Arab in Paris\"","url":"https://time.com/4128129/germany-guns-paris-attacks/","keywords":["Germany"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tara John","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tara-john/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4128129/germany-guns-paris-attacks/","name":"Man Who May Have Sold Guns to Paris Attackers Arrested in Germany"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"A Timeline of the Paris Attacks","description":"A Timeline of Paris Attacks","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/4MTtdsM7/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-11-14T20:13:24.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/4MTtdsM7.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4128129/germany-guns-paris-attacks/","duration":"PT2M44S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4128129/germany-guns-paris-attacks/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```