Gag order lifted 10 days after man allegedly repeatedly raped an elderly woman near the Central Bus Station in south Tel Aviv.

Photo: Ricardo Mallaco

An 83-year-old woman was raped for hours in the courtyard of her apartment building near the Central Bus Station in south Tel Aviv by a young Eritrean migrant, police announced on Monday morning.

Police said they were able to find the assailant a few days after the rape and on Monday morning he was brought to a remand extension at the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court where they requested to extend his remand until the end of his trial.

Speaking to reporters on Monday morning, Yiftach sub-district commander Superintendent David Gez said that the rape took place between 10 a.m. and around 12:30 pm ten days ago in a courtyard which was hidden from the street. The victim had left her house and was reportedly dragged into the courtyard by the man, and beat and raped the woman repeatedly until he fled when relatives of the woman arrived at the scene.

Gez said they have not determined if the man knew the woman beforehand, or if he met her only at the time of the incident.

Gez said that the man was not armed and did not tie the woman up, saying that because of his young age he had no need to do so to keep the elderly woman under his control. When asked if police had taken a DNA sample he said that they have all of the evidence they need against the suspect.

When asked if police have reinforced their patrols in south Tel Aviv in order to stave off violent disturbances directed at the African migrant community, Gez said that police are already going to be on a higher deployment because of New Year’s Eve and that “I don’t think the public is stupid enough to take this incident and make it into something it isn’t.”

Interior Minister Eli Yishai responded to the police announcement by calling on the Foreign Ministry and Justice Ministry to take the necessary steps that would allow him to deport migrants from Sudan and Eritrea back to their countries.

“The shocking rape is a symptom of a loss of sense of security among Israeli citizens in areas where there are high concentrations of infiltrators,” Yishai said.

“Completion of the security barrier, the installation of the detention center and passing a law that will allow the imprisonment of infiltrators” hinge on moves from the Foreign and Justice Ministries, he said. Yishai called on the ministries to allow him to complete the task which he set out to fulfill: “to stop the flow of infiltrators and return them to their countries.”.jpost

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