Man held on German bombing remanded

A BELFAST man wanted for extradition to Germany on charges connected with an IRA mortar attack on a British army barracks there…

A BELFAST man wanted for extradition to Germany on charges connected with an IRA mortar attack on a British army barracks there last June was further remanded for another week at a Dublin court yesterday.

Mr James Anthony Oliver Albert Corry (28), of Hillman Street, Belfast, was remanded in custody until Wednesday by Judge Peter Smithwick at a sitting of Dublin District Court.

Last week, the court heard that a provisional warrant from Germany seeking Mr Corry's extradition related to causing explosions in Germany around the end of June this year and to the attempted murder of British soldiers stationed in Germany.

A State solicitor, Mr Frank Cassidy, applied for a week's remand and said documentation from the German authorities had not yet arrived.

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On June 28th, a triple mortar attack was made on the Quebec barracks in Osnabruck. The mortars were fired from a flat bed Ford Transit. Only one exploded, missing its diesel pump target. No one was injured.

German police said a five member IRA unit was involved, three men and two women.

The German police are also seeking an ex British army lorrydriver, Mr Michael Robert Dickson (32), from Glasgow, in connection with the attack. Mr Dickson is believed to be in hiding in the Republic.