An alleged Israeli Mossad agent held in Poland has appealed his extradition to Germany.
Uri Brodsky, who is suspected of involvement in the assassination of a Hamas leader in Dubai in January, is fighting the extradition by claiming that Polish law does not allow such an action when the alleged offense is politically motivated, according to the AFP French news agency.
His extradition was approved July 7 by a Warsaw court. The appeal will be heard Aug. 5. Israel has called on Poland to allow Brodsky to return to Israel.
Arrested at the Warsaw airport last month, Brodsky is suspected of having helped another Mossad agent to illegally obtain a German passport as part of the plot to kill senior Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai. According to the German federal prosecutor’s office, the other agent received German citizenship based on fabricated evidence that his parents had fled Nazi Germany. — jta