A Danish man dressed in a clown suit was arrested on suspicion that he tried to kidnap a 4-year-old girl from a playground in Jaffa on Friday.
The 27-year-old man snatched the girl as she was playing and tried to escape with her, but put her down and fled after the girl’s mother cried out for help, police said.
Police were called to the scene and tried to locate the suspect, who was eventually arrested on Saturday, after an extensive search.
The Danish man was set to be brought before the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court Sunday for a hearing on the extension of his remand. He is suspected of attempted kidnapping, assault and causing injury.
“The event described is as far from reality as east is from west,” his lawyer, Adi Carmeli, told Ynet.
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“My client was the one attacked and hurt by the girl’s family. He says they even tried to steal instruments from him,” the lawyer added.
Carmeli described his client as an “artist and musician with Danish citizenship who has lived in Jaffa for three years,” and said the investigation “will clear the fog.”
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