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WARSAW, Poland — An accused Mossad agent charged with involvement in the slaying of a Hamas leader in Dubai asked on Monday for a Polish court to send him to Israel instead of extraditing him to Germany.

The suspect, who goes by the name Uri Brodsky, was arrested at Warsaw's international airport in June on a European warrant charging him with espionage and helping to falsely obtain a German passport used in connection with the Jan. 19 slaying of Hamas commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, which has been widely been blamed on Israel. On July 7, a district court ordered him extradited to Germany on the forgery charges only — meaning that he could only be tried in Germany for forgery and not spying.

The judge argued that Poland cannot extradite Brodsky on espionage charges because espionage against Germany is not a punishable crime in Poland.