Germany arrests suspected Tamil rebel supporter

German prosecutors say they have arrested an alleged supporter of a local wing of the Tamil Tiger rebels who is accused of intimidating a fellow Sri Lankan into making donations.
The 61-year-old identified only as T.M. was arrested Wednesday. That followed the arrest earlier this month of six alleged leaders of the Tamil Coordination Committee _ a German wing of the Tigers.


He is accused of supporting the committee and of collecting money for it in the western German city of Wuppertal.

Prosecutors said Friday he is accused, in 2002, of threatening a Tamil exile and his family with a pistol to force him to make monthly payments.

The Tamil Tigers, defeated in 2009 after 25 years of civil war in Sri Lanka, are listed as terrorists by the European Union.