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Monday, March 31, 2025
Police arrest man accused of spraying swastikas onto Israeli flag logo on ambulances in Haredi neighborhood
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Police say they arrested a resident of Bnei Brak yesterday, suspected of spray-painting swastikas over Israeli flags depicted on two Magen David Adom emergency service vans earlier this month.
Officers arrested the suspect, a Haredi man in his 20s, in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood, as he was participating in a procession to mark the new Hebrew month. He had been holding a sign which read: “We have no part or inheritance in the Zionist state.”
The suspect is thought to have painted swastikas over the Israeli flag logo on MDA vehicles while paramedics tended to a patient in Mea Shearim on March 9, at around 3 a.m.
According to a spokesman for law enforcement, the suspect had already been identified by police investigators and the court had previously issued a warrant for his arrest.
The young man was detained for questioning on suspicion of intentionally causing property damage, committing offenses motivated by racism or hostility towards the public, and interfering with a police officer, the police spokesperson says.
The suspect was detained after his interrogation and police intend to request to extend his detention during a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court later this morning.
The Times of Israel Community.