An Israeli-American woman who was arrested while vacationing with her children on the Greek island of Crete is being released to house arrest, the Ynet news site reports.
The woman was arrested last month by local authorities responding to an Interpol warrant, which may lead to her extradition to the United States.
The report, citing the local prosecutor, did not say if she would be allowed to return to Israel, nor where she would stay in Crete.
The woman left the US eight years ago with her three children, claiming that her husband at the time had been abusing them. Her husband claimed that she had kidnapped the children, and a warrant was issued for her arrest.
However, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled against ordering her deported back to the US, and instead granted her citizenship.
Now 60 years old, the woman ostensibly thought that she no longer was in criminal danger, given the court ruling, the fact that her husband had since died and that her children were no longer minors.
She took her children on a cruise to celebrate her youngest daughter’s 18th birthday but found herself under arrest when the ship docked in Crete.
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