An indictment was filed in the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court against Elran Rahmani, 45, from Tel Aviv, after he threatened to murder and harm homosexuals, and at a center for transgender women.
According to the indictment filed by attorney Pamela Binyamin, Rahmani called the Center for Transgender Women in Tel Aviv at the end of May. During the conversation, he falsely claimed that he wanted to donate items to a center he called a center for "shemales and stuff in the Tel Aviv area," while asking the employee on the phone to give him the center's address. After the employee replied that the address was confidential, Rahmani told him, "You understand that you are actually taking part and actually helping people cut themselves and hurt themselves and mutilate themselves." Following his remarks, the employee asked him how he found out about the center, and Rahmani threatened him in response, "When I come to you, you will know, I promise you that you will know" and that "you understand that you are going to be stabbed, right?"
Following the conversation, an investigation was opened by the Israel Police, in which the defendant was arrested. During the arrest, on four separate occasions, Rahmani threatened by telling the police officer that he would murder the first homosexual he met, and on one occasion the defendant told the policeman, "The first gay man I see, I murder him, you brought me to do it." On six separate occasions, Rahmani threatened the policeman, saying that he would drive his car at 180 kilometers per hour and carry out a vehicular attack against homosexuals. During his interrogations, the respondent said that "shemales are perverts," according to Jewish law, "the death penalty," "a man in a dress is not normal." Rahmani also noted that before committing the acts, he saw pride flags in Tel Aviv.
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In the arrest request, Adv. Binyamin referred to a conversation initiated by Rahmani to the Transgender Women's Center, noting that "the content of the conversation shows that these are not mere things, the respondent's attempt to find out the location of the center indicates his intention to go there, in order to realize the threat heard from him later in the conversation."
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