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JERUSALEM
GAY PRIDE:

SIX STABBED BY

‘ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEW’

POLICE have arrested a man after six Friday, July 31 2015 - ARUBA TRAVELLER

people were wounded in a stabbing at the
Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem. A police
spokesperson has reported that the sus-
pect was the same man who stabbed three
people at the parade in 2005.

Yishai Schlissel, an ultra-Orthodox Jew,
was sentenced to 12 years in prison for
that attack and was released from prison
three weeks ago. Two of the injured are
in a serious condition, the ambulance
service said.

Eyewitnesses told Israel’s Haaretz news-
paper that the attacker emerged behind
marchers and began stabbing them while
screaming, before being tackled by a
police officer. The march has long been
a source of tension between Jerusalem’s
secular majority and its Jewish Orthodox
communities.

Hundreds of police are deployed along the
route to try to prevent violence breaking
out. Ultra-Orthodox Jews have previously
gathered in the city’s Mea Shearim quarter
to protest against homosexuality.

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