13/08/2010 A German court released on bail Friday an alleged Israeli agent suspected of links to the January killing of a Hamas leader, saying he may now return home as he is only facing a fine.
Polish authorities, who had arrested Uri Brodsky in June at Warsaw airport on suspicion of obtaining a German passport under false pretences, had extradited him to Germany Thursday.
He appeared Friday before a magistrate in the western city of Cologne, who released him on bail, a spokesman for the city prosecutor's office told AFP. Brodsky may now return to Israel as his maximum penalty would be a fine covered by the bail payment.
"The arrest warrant was suspended after an agreement between the district court and the prosecutor's office," the spokesman said, adding that bail had been set at "an appropriate amount" without providing details.
Brodsky is accused of illegally obtaining a German passport under the name Michael Bodenheimer which was later found to have been used by a member of the hit-squad that killed Mahmud al-Mabhuh of Hamas in a Dubai hotel room.
The squad, which Dubai police believe was from Israeli spy agency Mossad, was found to have used 26 doctored foreign passports, sparking diplomatic fallout not only with Germany but
Australia, Britain, France and Ireland.
(AFP)
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"... Cologne prosecutors' spokesman Rainer Wolf said after a closed-doors hearing that the suspect known as Uri Brodsky is free to travel wherever he wants to go while judicial proceedings against him in Germany will continue...."
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