A Croatian court clears the way for the extradition of a Bosnian man to Tunisia over the alleged murder of an aerospace engineer described by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas as one of its members.
Mohamed Zouari, 49, was killed in a hail of bullets outside his house in Tunisia’s second city Sfax in December 2016.
At a hearing, the court says it had “established that legal preconditions for extradition” had been met, a statement reads.
The suspect was arrested in Croatia on March 13 on an international warrant and has been held in custody since, says the statement issued by the court in Velika Gorica, near Zagreb.
Shortly after Zouari’s death, Hamas said he was a drone expert who had worked for the “resistance” for a decade before being killed by Israel.
Israel refuses to respond to the allegations.
— AFP
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