Mordecai Louk, the Israeli who was rescued last week by police in Rome from kidnapping by Egyptian diplomats, was remanded here today for 15 days on charges of illegally crossing Israel’s border and of maintaining contact with enemy intelligence.
Louk, who had been drugged and strapped in Italy into a trunk marked “diplomatic mail” for shipment to Cairo, returned to Israel voluntarily on Tuesday to face the charges. Samuel Tamir, his attorney, raised no objections during the hearing, commenting that “Israeli detention is better than an Egyptian prison.”
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