German secret service agents arrested in Cairo: German TV
IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency
Berlin, Feb 5, IRNA -- Seven Germans, among them members of the secret service BND, were briefly arrested in the wake of the ongoing unrest in Egypt, the German television station ARD reported Saturday.
Confidential documents of the German Foreign Ministry pointed to arbitrary arrests of foreigners, some of whom were German students.
A Foreign Ministry spokeswoman refused to comment on the classified documents, but said that based on her knowledge, no Germans were presently imprisoned in Egypt linked to the current events.
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Islamic Republic News Agency/IRNA NewsCode: 30224693
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