The two suspects have been accused of terrorism and possible links to the attacks that killed 130 people in the French capital.
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Robert Holzleitner, spokesperson for the Salzburg Prosecutor’s office, said on Wednesday in Salzburg (Austria), that “the two men are suspected to have provided help to members of the group that carried out the attacks”.
They are believed to have entered Europe via Greece and travelled along the Western Balkan route used by hundreds of thousands of refugees fleeing conflict in the Middle East and Africa. A spokesman declined to give the nationalities of those…
Information about the arrests emanated from a foreign inquiry agency, according to the Austrian daily.
“As part of the preliminary investigation, evidence suggesting a connection with the Paris attacks is being verified”, he added, declining to comment on the specifics of the newspaper reports.
Austria’s Kronen Zeitung reported that the suspects are French, with Algerian or Pakistani heritage, and were awaiting orders for further terror attacks.
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The pair, aged 20 and 21, are reported to have boasted to other refugees and volunteers that they had fought with Isis in Syria.
