A court has extended the detention of four of the 10 minors suspected in last week’s killing of Yemanu Zelka in Petah Tikva. They will remain in custody until Friday.
The 21-year-old pizzeria employee was stabbed to death by a group of youths who ambushed him after work on the eve of Independence Day. He was seriously injured and succumbed to his wounds in the hospital a day later.
Around two hundred protesters, most of them Ethiopian Israelis, gathered outside the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court ahead of today’s remand hearing, demanding “justice for Yemanu” and urging a harsh punishment for the suspects. “Ethiopian blood is not cheap,” the protesters chanted.
Of the 10 suspects in the case, three have been transferred to house arrest on the order of a judge, including two 12-year-olds.
The main suspect in the case, a 15-year-old believed to have carried out the lethal stabbing, and two other detainees have not yet been brought before a judge to extend their detention a second time.
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