Témoignage de l’avocat de “l’agent” du Mossad israélo-australien, mort dans sa prison sous haute sécurité. L’Australien était accusé de “graves délits” par Israël.
Zygier was negotiating plea bargain before he died in jail, says his Israeli lawyer - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
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Israeli criminal attorney Avigdor Feldman said he met Zygier, dubbed “Prisoner X”, a day before his death.
“I met with a balanced person, given the tragic outcome, who was rationally weighing his legal options,” Feldman told Channel 10 Television.
Feldman said that Zygier was charged with “grave crimes” and that there were ongoing negotiations for a plea bargain. The attorney did not elaborate on the allegations, which he said Zygier denied. Reporting in Israel on the case has been subject to strict government censorship.
“His interrogators told him he could expect lengthy jail- time and be ostracized from his family and the Jewish community,” Feldman said. “There was no heart string they did not pull, and I suppose that ultimately brought about the tragic end.”
Australian media have reported that Zygier had been one of at least three Australian-Israeli dual nationals under investigation by the Australian Security IntelligenceOrganization over suspicions of spying for Israel.
Australia complained to Israel in 2010 after forged Australian passports were among those used by what Dubai said was a Mossad hit squad that assassinated a top Hamas operative in the emirate. The killers, Dubai said, also had British, Irish, French and German passports.
The Mossad is widely reputed to have stepped up its shadow war in recent years against Iran’s nuclear program, Lebanon’s Hezbollah guerrillas, suspected nuclear procurement by Syria and arms smuggling to Palestinians through Dubai, Sudan and Egypt.
In an apparent reversal on previous statements, Australian Foreign minister Bob Carr said on Thursday his ministry had known about Zygier’s jailing in Israel as early as February 2010.
On Wednesday he said Australian diplomats in Israel only found out about the detention after his death in custody later that year.