The arrests were made in the German city of Aachen following the bloody massacre on Friday. Other German media quoted a witness as saying police made the arrests in front of a job centre.
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Police near the Belgian border had detained five men and two women through the day as they hunt for suspects related to last Friday’s bloody jihadist attacks in France.
The age or nationality of the suspects is not known at this time.
French police have used emergency powers to conduct nearly 300 searches since Sunday night that netted 127 arrests and 31 weapons.
French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Tuesday that police carried out 128 police raids overnight, as he conceded that “the majority of those who were involved in this attack were unknown to our services”.
“Given the current state of the investigation, it does not look like that there is a close connection with the attacks in Paris”, de Maiziere said at a news conference in Berlin, according to press agency DPA.
Islamic State (ISIS) have claimed responsibility for the horrific and co-ordinated attacks, which left 129 dead. He travelled from Germany to Austria on September 9 with two companions, an Austrian Interior Ministry spokesman said on Tuesday.
The authorities are still looking for a key suspect, 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam, brother of one of the suicide attackers.
At least three of those arrests were foreign nationals.
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France and Russian Federation both staged air strikes on Islamic State targets in northern Syria on Tuesday as Paris formally requested European Union assistance in its fight against the group responsible. There were further reports that two more people were arrested in Alsdorf.
