In the video: Statement by Modi'in Sergeant Major Dror Asraf about the arrest of Shay Avital (police spokeswoman)
The models' agent Shay Avital was brought this morning (Wednesday) for an extension of detention at the Magistrate's Court in Tel Aviv, a day after he was extradited from the Netherlands.
The police want to prosecute him for sexual offenses against two women.
The police representative mentioned that "from the moment the investigative unit entered the picture, a large number of operations were carried out. The suspect was invited several times to appear for questioning, and since that did not happen, an arrest warrant was issued that was brought to his attention, and he did not appear. A few days before the publications, he fled the country. His version is sophisticated and he gave it in a manner that is convenient for him. There is a fear of disrupting investigative operations."
His lawyer Shashi Gaz protested the definition "escaped".
"He left the country but there was no investigation at all at the time."
He chose to conduct the investigation through the media," replied the police representative. "He set conditions for the investigating unit to return to Israel.
Many resources were invested to bring him to Israel." Gaz accused: "Did you have to bring him like a monkey in a circus?
Kofiko doesn't look like that.
You would have already brought him in a cargo plane.
jungle.
There is no mutual respect, respect for a human being."
During the exchange, Avital winked at one of the women who came to support him. It is suspected that the first offense occurred in 2014-2015, and the second between September 2019 and March 2020.
"One of the two suspicions is an indecent act involving exploitation unconsciousness.
If the girl was conscious, she agreed according to the section, right?
According to her version, she was not drugged," Gaz continued his words, "and suddenly she says she is drugged.
If he wasn't famous, they wouldn't have turned him in."
Shai Avital in court, today (Photo: Niv Aharonson)
Avital was extradited to Israel last night and brought to Israel on a flight from the Netherlands accompanied by Israeli police officers.
There are 26 police complaints against the model's agent by women who claim that he sexually harassed and harmed them.
He landed in Israel yesterday about six months since he was arrested in Amsterdam as part of cooperation with the Dutch police.
The repeated complaints regarding sexual harassment on the part of Avital became public after in July 2021 an investigation was broadcast on the program "The Tube" on Channel 13, in which a number of Israeli models complained about sexual assaults and even rape of them by Avital. A few days before the affair was exposed in the media, Avital went on a trip outside of Israel.
In August of last year, Avital was arrested in Amsterdam as part of the cooperation of the police with the local authorities. In September 2022, the state attorney's office submitted a request to the Dutch authorities to extradite Shai Avital. A few months later, the court in the Netherlands ruled at the request of the Israeli authorities to extradite him to Israel.
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