On video: A gay couple was attacked in their apartment in Tel Aviv on the eve of Holocaust Memorial Day (documentation on social networks according to Section 27 A of the Copyright Law)
A resident of Tel Aviv was arrested today (Monday) on suspicion of attacking a gay couple who live next to him on Chelanov Street in the city.
According to the suspicion, the couple's neighbor broke the shutter in their apartment and threatened them: "Go back to Germany, I don't tolerate gays."
The couple filed a police complaint against him.
Oded, who was attacked, said: "Just before my partner and I left for work, the man shouted at us from the window that if we had the courage to leave the apartment and that he would kill us. Immediately after that, he already reached out to our balcony and took down our blinds. A few seconds later, he said Terrible hate and we called the police."
The Pride Parade in Jerusalem, last year (Photo: Flash 90, Yonatan Zindel)
"I feel unsafe on the most extreme level possible. I've lived in Tel Aviv for ten years and I've never experienced an attack. Only since the last few months have we come across demonstrations, in the recordings I receive and the peak has now come when they tried to break the window of our house, our most protected space," told
Oded said that he expects the police to treat the case seriously.
"I expect them to arrest him until the end of the proceedings and that he be kept away from the public. If this is a psychiatric condition and the presence of LGBT people triggers him, he could be the next Yishai Schlissel," he read.
The chairman of the LGBT Association Hila Par said: "Every day we receive more and more cases of hate against LGBT people.
The rampant LGBTphobia and the Israeli police turn a blind eye, ignore and close cases without even summoning for questioning attackers identified on video cameras. The members and members of the gay community are not the punching bag of extremists. This is a reality that we will not accept. Ours. I call on the Israeli police to come to their senses and show a strong hand against the attacks and threats against the gay community."
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