Germany's Federal Prosecutors' Office said the 32-year-old
German citizen, identified only as Andre E., is suspected of being an accessory
to crimes, inciting racial hatred and supporting the far-right terrorist group.
Among other things, he is believed to have produced a video
in 2007 in which the group claimed responsibility for its killings and attacks,
prosecutors said.
A special operations team arrested the suspect near Potsdam
in a morning raid, and investigators searched four apartments in different
cities. The man was flown by helicopter to Karlsruhe in southern Germany where
he was to be brought before a judge later.
The neo-Nazi group is suspected of killing eight people of
Turkish origin and a Greek man between 2000 and 2006 and a policewoman in 2007.
It is also being investigated in connection with several other possible hate
crimes and a string of bank robberies over the past decade.
Prosecutors said the group is believed linked to two
bombings in Cologne targeting foreigners in 2001 and 2004, which injured more
than 20 people.
