Former bin Laden's alleged bodyguard released on bail

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Tunisian justice decided on Friday the "provisional release" of the former guard of the alleged body of Osama Bin Laden, against which "no charge has been retained" to date, told the AFP the spokesman of the anti-terrorist pole.

This Tunisian, in pre-trial detention since his expulsion from Germany where he resided, "appeared (Friday) before an investigating judge at the anti-terrorist center, who decided to release him on bail because no charges been detained against him, "said Sofiene Sliti, who however said that the investigation" was still ongoing. " "During his 15 days of pre-trial detention, Sami Idoudi has been the subject of an investigation by the anti-terrorist group, which has so far found no evidence of involvement in terrorist cases," said Friday. Sliti

"His pbadport is held by the courts because the investigation has not been completed yet," he added.

Sami Idoudi, 42, was expelled on 13 July by Berlin but a German court ordered his return to Germany judging that the deportation was "totally illegal" and violated the "fundamental principles of the rule of law."

Pre-trial detention in Tunisia on suspicion of involvement in "terrorist acts". Husband and father, Sami Idoudi has been living since 2005 in Bochum (Germany). In April, he was clbadified as a dangerous person by the regional authorities of North Rhine-Westphalia.

In 2015, a German court ruled that Sami Idoudi had supported al-Qaeda and participated in the late 1990s to a military training in a camp of the organization in Afghanistan. He had denied these claims and refuted to have been Osama bin Laden's bodyguard, claiming to have had religious training in Pakistan during this period.