Jerusalem Pride stabbings: Girl, 16, critical as suspect appears in court over

Six people were stabbed on the streets of Jerusalem yesterday during the city’s gay pride parade.

The suspect, who was remanded for 12 days by a Jerusalem court on Friday, recently completed a 10-year jail term after carrying out a similar attack at the same gay pride parade a decade ago, police said.

Both attacks were widely condemned, including by conservative religious and political leaders.

With emotions running high in the country, police on Friday detained a man from southern Israel after a lawmaker complained about an offensive Facebook post in which he reportedly lauded Schlissel for the attack and hoped for the deaths of the victims.

A medic that handled the wounded on the scene, Hanoch Zelinger, stated one lady was stabbed within the again, chest and neck, and was mendacity unconscious on the bottom. One teenager remains in critical condition at a Jerusalem hospital.

The parade continued after the wounded were taken for treatment, but in a far more somber atmosphere.

“I do assume that homophobia is rooted within the metropolis, however that is the objective of the parade”, stated Benny Zupick, 21, shortly after the assault. “We are trying to change that. Hopefully he’s a minority”.

“But to our regret, despite the massive police presence, a man succeeded in breaking through the lines and stabbing marchers”, police spokesman Asi Aharoni said.

Condemnation poured in against the attack, including from ultra-Orthodox Jewish leaders, and the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, called it “a despicable hate crime”, adding: “Freedom of individual choice is a basic value in Israel”. We should not be deluded, a scarcity of tolerance will lead us to catastrophe.

“We can not be silent any longer”, Shmuli wrote.

The fact that the this year’s event is taking place at the site of the 1936 Summer Olympics, where American Jewish athletes were shamefully removed by their coaches from participating so as not to offend Hitler, is a sign of the survival and pride of the Jewish people as well as the openness of German democracy today.

Unlike Tel Aviv Pride, Israeli politicians do not usually attend or speak at Jerusalem Pride.

Tel Aviv has emerged as one of many world’s most gay-friendly journey locations just lately, in sharp distinction to a lot of the remainder of the Center East, the place gays are persecuted and even killed.