Indictment against Arab who stabbed Jews in Jerusalem

Today (Monday) it was cleared for publication that detectives and investigators in the central minority department, in cooperation with Shalem station policemen, arrested a 31-year-old Arab resident of Silwan suspected of stabbing a Jewish man in Bloomfield Park, attempting to stab a young haredi man near the Old City, and the stabbing of a young Arab at Damascus Gate.

The suspect, who was arrested after three events that occurred in succession, had bound himself to them, but does not admit to them.

Police believe that the background to the stabbing is not nationalistic.

The investigation revealed that on seventeenth Av this year, a religious Jew, in his fifties, a resident of the city, entered the bathrooms in Bloomfield, when suddenly the suspect attacked him with a knife and stabbed him several times.

The suspect fled after stabbing in the direction of the Old City. On his way he met a young haredi man sitting on a bench and tried to stab him too. The haredi man objected and a fight erupted between the two. The Jew took a stone from the ground, threw it at the suspect and fled.

Having arrived at the Damascus Gate, a fight broke out between him and another young Arab. The suspect stabbed the Arab man and policemen from the Shalem station who were called to the scene, arrested the suspect.

The suspect was taken for interrogation, during which it was suspected, according to the description given by both the Jews and the description of the knife he drew at them, that this is the same suspect who stabbed the young Arab at Damascus Gate. He was transferred for investigation to the squad minority department for further investigation and after an intensive investigation he tied himself to the events.

A lineup was made for the suspect and he was identified by two victims. The suspect's clothing had blood stains on them which during testing, it became clear that these are bloodstains of the Jewish man who was stabbed in the public bathrooms.

Two long cuts in his back and a cut in his hand

Jerusalem District Attorney by Attorney Benny Libeskind, filed an indictment at the District Court today against Sammar Telhami, a resident of Tel Aviv (where his mother lives. The suspect lives in East Jerusalem), age 31, for injury in aggravating circumstances, aggravated assault and aggravated attempt of injury. The defendant stabbed two residents of Jerusalem and tried to stab another resident.

According to the indictment, in 24.7.13 the defendant approached the complainant who was sitting on a bench in Bloomfield Park, carrying a knife Japanese, which he held hidden behind his back.

The defendant opened the knife and tried to stab the complainant. When he heard the opening knife, the complainant rose towards the defendant to prevent him from stabbing him.

The defendant tried to stab the complainant who fought him and knocked him to the ground, and so prevented him from stabbing. Then, the defendant raised the knife in his hand and then the complainant threw a stone at the defendant who fled.

Shortly thereafter, the complainant approached another defendant who was at the public services in the park with the knife in his hand and asked him why he is relieving himself there. Immediately afterwards, the defendant stabbed the complainant once in the chest.

The complainant tried to flee and the accused cut him with the knife two long cuts in the back and one cut in his hand.

As a result of the acts of the defendant, the plaintiff suffered a deep stab wound in the chest, a long and deep cut in the back and a cut with a tendon rupture in his left hand and he was rushed to hospital where he was treated and hospitalized for six days.

Later, the defendant left the park toward the Old City of Jerusalem. At around 16:30, near the Damascus Gate, the accused approached a third complainant and started yelling at him and cursing him. The complainant asked him why he was cursing him.

In response to the defendant took the knife that was in his possession, attacked the complainant and cut him in the back to two long cuts.

As a result of the defendant's actions the plaintiff suffered of two long cuts in the back and he was rushed to the hospital.

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