A suspected IRA member has been released on €20,000 bail in Germany pending trial in connection with an explosive attack on a British army base in western Germany in 1989.
German authorities suspect that the man they identified as Leonard Joseph H., with Irish and British citizenship, was one of five IRA members behind the attack on the Quebec barracks in Osnabrück.
He was arrested in Torremolinos, Spain, on August 17th last, and spent six weeks in detention before agreeing on September 30th to travel to Germany.
Last Monday he was flown to Frankfurt, and turned himself over to police. He was charged with five counts of attempted murder and attempting to cause an explosion. No date has been set for his trial.
Germany's chief federal prosecutor says the man was a member of an active service unit that executed the attack on the army base's accommodation building on June 19th, 1989.
In June 1995, Donna Maguire, Donncha and Pauline O'Kane and Patrick Murray were sentenced to an average of nine years' jail for attempted murder and attempting to cause an explosion.