Police charged an Eritrean man with illegally entering an army base half-naked, damaging property, and threatening soldiers with a weapon, Ynet reported on Wednesday.
The man, 22, from the southern Negev town of Rahat, was armed with a knife and a stick, but stark naked from the waist down, when he broke into an IDF camp near Kfar Sirkin and damaged the base’s recreation room.
When soldiers investigated the commotion, the man threatened them with a knife and a stick. Police called to the base arrested the man after first using a stun gun to subdue him. During his investigation the man threatened his female translator, leaped onto the table and urinated.
Police asked the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s court to detain the man until the end of proceedings.
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