A German national was picked up by the Tamil Nadu police in Nagercoil for allegedly assisting the protests against the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant and deported from the country in the wee hours of Tuesday.
Sonnteg Reiner Hermann, 49, was picked up last night in Nagercoil by a section of the Q branch police officials monitoring the anti-KNPP protests after they were alerted by central intelligence agencies, the police sources said.
Hermann was brought to Chennai last night for interrogation and was deported from the country from the international air terminus around 1 am, they said.
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