Why did the police use bait in the form of a Haredi on the streets of Jaffa? And was the bait actually 'caught' by the predators? The Walla website reported today [Sunday] that a group of Israeli Arabs who used to attack young Haredi men on the streets of Jaffa were exposed, using a detective who disguised himself as a Haredi and attracted the attackers.
The beginning of the affair
A yeshiva student known as A. was walking through the streets of Jaffa on his way to his grandfather's memorial service at the local synagogue. In the procession, A. noticed two boys on bicycles. The years passed him by, they snatched the hat from his head, and continued on their way. When he demanded the hat back, they replied: "Get out of here." A. recalls: "One told me, 'Get out of here.' He grabbed an iron chain and swung it at me. I asked him why he took the hat, what did I do to you? Then the other one kicked me.".
But the two men didn't know that they were being filmed by security cameras operating at the scene, in which they are seen attacking the boy, fleeing the scene and throwing the hat at an abandoned construction site. Incidentally, the boy, who received the hat from the police a few days later, said that "he didn't believe he would ever see his hat again.".
The boys allegedly continued to the area where another synagogue is located and again tried to steal a hat from one of the worshippers who was trying to enter the synagogue.
Detective A. Tzadik
Since the events were serial in nature, the Jaffa police decided to give the investigation top priority and deployed a detective who posed as an ultra-Orthodox person to serve as a 'bait' for the attackers.
Detective A. says: "I noticed a group of boys approaching me as I was walking on Jerusalem Street. They were cursing and one of them spat at me." The detective called his friends and during the investigation it became clear that some of the detainees were the attackers in the two previous incidents.
A total of six suspects were arrested, three of whom confessed to the acts attributed to them, and in the coming days, they will be charged with racially motivated assault and theft and a nationalistic hate crime.
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