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Police officer says he urged surveillance of gay parade attacker
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA senior police officer says he urged Jerusalem Police’s Central Unit to put Gay Pride Parade attacker Yishai Schlissel under surveillance before the Friday march.
Schlissel stabbed six people at the march, killing 16-year-old Shira Banki, before he was wrestled to the ground by police.
Schlissel was released from prison last month after serving a ten-year sentence for a similar stabbing attack at the Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade in 2005.
The officer says he asked police to track five other “exceptions” who might have reason to attack the parade, but that the Central Unit of the Jerusalem Police failed to carry out the recommendation.
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