Poles support agent's extradition

Report: Prosecutors will ask court to extradite Brodsky to Germany.

By HERB KEINON, JPOST.COM STAFF
al-Mabhouh portriat 311 (photo credit: Associated Press)
al-Mabhouh portriat 311
(photo credit: Associated Press)
Polish prosecutors will ask a Warsaw court to extradite spy suspect Uri Brodsky to Germany, the Polish News Agency reported Monday.
A spokesman for the prosecution was also quoted as saying that political considerations are not involved in the decision to extradite Brodsky.
RELATED:Dubai doesn't want 'Mossad agent'Iran incensed over Mabhouh hitAnalysis: The legacy of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh
Brodsky was arrested earlier this month for allegedly forging one of the passports used by the team that purportedly killed Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai in January.
Germany has reportedly asked for Brodsky’s extradition because he was allegedly involved in providing false information to obtain a German passport in Cologne for a man by the name of Michael Bodenheimer that was apparently used by the squad that killed Mabhouh.
In Germany, meanwhile, a spokesman for the German federal prosecutor told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that the prosecutor’s office “does not know” if Israel “intervened” with Poland regarding the extradition of the alleged spy. The spokesman said he read the news item about the Israeli government contacting Polish officials in the Der Spiegel report that broke the story.
When asked what the legal timeline was in connection with the extradition process, the German spokesman said that depended on “many different factors.” He declined to give a time frame and said the legal options available to the suspect conform to EU guidelines.
The UAE newspaper The National quoted on Sunday Lt. Gen. Dahi Khalfan Tamim, the Dubai Police chief, as saying Dubai would not seek the suspect’s extradition from Germany.
“This person has committed the crime in Germany and therefore it is only normal that he will be prosecuted there,” he was quoted as saying. “For us, what is important [is] that he will receive his punishment irrespective of which country.”
He added, however, that if Brodsky was involved in the assassination in Dubai, then his extradition would be sought.