A Yemeni man suspected of having fought with the country’s Iran-backed Huthi rebels was arrested in Germany on Thursday, prosecutors said.
The man, partially named as Hussein H., was detained by police in the southern town of Dachau, the federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
He is suspected of “being a member of a terrorist organisation” after allegedly joining the Huthis in October 2022.
Prosecutors said the man, after receiving ideological and military training, had briefly fought for the rebels in clashes in Yemen’s central Marib province in early 2023.
The Huthis, a radical political-military group from Yemen’s northern mountains, have imposed strict rule over the large swathe of Yemen under their control, covering two-thirds of the population.
Yemen, already the poorest country in the Arabian Peninsula, has been devastated by war since 2015, when a Saudi-led coalition launched a failed campaign to dislodge the Huthis.
Since the Gaza war broke out after the Hamas attack of October 2023, the Huthis have regularly fired missiles and drones at maritime traffic and at Israel in what they say are acts of solidarity with Palestinians.
The rebels warned Monday they would impose a “naval blockade” on the Israeli port of Haifa after the country’s military intensified its offensive in Gaza.
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