'Real German passport used in Dubai hit'
By BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL, JPOST CORRESPONDENT
02/21/2010 15:50
Der Spiegel: Passport of Michael Bodenheimer not fake, as previously claimed.
A banner poster ofMahmoud al-Mabhouh Photo: ASSOCIATED PRESS
BERLIN - Der Spiegel reported on Saturday that the passport of German citizen Michael Bodenheimer used in the killing of Hamas operative Mahmoud al-Mabhouh is authentic.
An Israeli with the name Michael Bodenheimer applied for a passport in Cologne, and was issued a German passport in 2009, the newsweekly wrote.
According to Der Spiegel, Bodenheimer supplied the authorities with the his parents’ marriage certificate, an Israeli passport from 2008, and documents showing that he came from a German Jewish family.
Germany’s Federal Constitution permits German Jews and their
descendants who fled or survived the Holocaust to receive German
citizenship. Der Spiegel
wrote that Bodenheimer secured his German passport in June, 2009 and
apparently traveled to Dubai with it on January 19, 2010. The public
prosecutor in Cologne is investigating the possible misuse of a German
passport.
A Michael Bodenheimer lived in Herzliya until last June, the magazine wrote.