His identity was not revealed.
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A spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Duisburg declined to comment on German media reports that the suspect arrested yesterday in Dinslaken, in North Rhine-Westphalia, was also a Syrian refugee.
The man was arrested in Mutterstadt in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
However, late on Tuesday police in the Rhineland-Palatinate state said they arrested a 24-year old asylum seekers with links to a high-ranking IS figure.
The Dormund and Hildesheim raids also targeted preachers suspected of recruiting young men to fight for IS in Syria and Iraq.
“Investigations conducted thus far have found no evidence of a concrete threat”, the state’s interior ministry said in a statement.
The high-ranking ISIS terror suspect was arrested in Mutterstadt, Pfalz in Germany, the Interior Ministry announced. Jaeger told reporters that the arrest resulted from a “vague tip” from someone who thought he or she had “heard something”.
Separately, German prosecutors carried out searches Wednesday linked to three suspected supporters of IS. They are suspected of seeking members and supporters for ISIS since previous year. The teenage attacker, who was registered as an Afghan asylum seeker but believed to be a Pakistani national, wounded four using an ax and a knife.
They include speeding up the expulsion process for asylum seekers convicted of crimes, Bild daily reported, and the creation of a “threat to public security” as a new reason for deporting migrants.
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German police have arrested a second man as part of an investigation into a Syrian refugee accused of planning a terror attack.
