HAMBURG, Germany, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A Moroccan man who was acquitted of complicity in the Sept. 11, 2002, attacks will file a compensation suit with Germany's highest court.
Abdelghani Mzoudi -- a friend of 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta -- was acquitted in 2005 by a German court of all terror charges and has since been extradited to Morocco.
So far, however, he has not received compensation for the 14 months he spent in a Hamburg jail while awaiting the outcome of several trials, German news magazine Der Spiegel said in its latest issue.
The state of Hamburg had promised to pay him roughly $6,000, but didn't pay the man because he remains on a United Nations register classifying him as a Taliban member. That classification also causes his assets to be frozen and forbids any payments, the magazine said.
Mzoudi's German lawyer said the procedure was illegal, as it could not be independently verified whether someone on that list was innocent or not.
The lawyer wants to file suit with a Munich court and plans to raise the issue also with the German Constitutional Court in Karlsruhe, the country's highest legal institution, the magazine said.
