German Seized in Connection With 2 Fires

FRANKFURT, Germany —  A man was arrested in connection with a firebombing that killed three Turks and authorities said Thursday that he is a suspected member of a neo-Nazi terrorist group.

A statement from the federal prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe said 25-year-old Michael Peters and 10 other people were suspected of carrying out the attack Monday on two apartment buildings in Moelln.

It said the remaining 10 were known to authorities but did not identify them or their group. They have not been taken into custody.

Killed in the attack were a Turkish woman, age 51; her granddaughter, age 10, and a visiting relative, age 14.

Peters and the group are also suspected of arson attacks against three asylum shelters in northern Germany in September, the statement said.

In northern Brandenburg state, meanwhile, police Thursday announced the arrest of two teen-age skinheads suspected of dousing a 51-year-old man with gasoline and setting him ablaze on Nov. 7. The man died.

Rightists also ransacked a refugee home in Struvenberg village, and a 30-year-old man was arrested after marching through the town of Nauen shouting “Heil Hitler!” and “Foreigners out!”

German TV and the newspaper Berliner Morgenpost said Interior Minister Rudolf Seiters planned to ban an unidentified right-wing extremist group by the end of the week. The ministry declined to comment.