https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Palestinian-suspected-of-raping-Israeli-girl-My-life-has-been-ruined-593645
Mahmoud Nazmi Katusa, the Palestinian man from the town of Deir Qaddis near Ramallah, who was suspected of raping a 7-year-old Israeli girl, said upon his release Tuesday that the authorities wasted their time by holding an “innocent” man.
Katusa received a hero’s welcome in his town after IDF Military Advocate-General Maj.-Gen. Sharon Afek announced his decision to withdraw the indictment against him.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/265063
Prosecutors dropped the indictment against a Palestinian Authority resident accused of abducting and raping a seven-year-old in a haredi town near Modi’in.
According to a statement released Tuesday by prosecutors, the suspect, Mahmoud Katusa, will be freed, and the indictment filed against him last Sunday dropped.
“After additional examinations of the material in the investigation, the chief army prosecutor…found that the evidentiary basis for the indictment does not satisfy the requirement of having a ‘reasonable chance of leading to a conviction’. As such, in keeping with the court’s instructions, the criminal proceedings cannot be continued, and the indictment must be withdrawn, and Katusa released from arrest.”
Despite the decision to release Katusa and withdraw the indictment, investigators said the probe would continue, focusing both on Katusa and “other directions”.
These stories always kill me, because it could happen to anyone that they get falsely accused.
ReplyDeleteThe lesson is: stay away from kids.