A Spanish flotilla activist will remain in police custody until Wednesday after she allegedly bit a medical worker while detained in Ketziot Prison, police announce.
Prison officials say she bit the medical worker’s hand while being escorted back from a routine check-up on the eve of her deportation, which was originally scheduled for today.
However, a Beersheba Magistrate’s Court judge extended her remand by three more days this morning, after she was detained by police last night following the bite.
Officers brought her to the Negev’s Segev Shalom police station to be interrogated, police say.
The activist is a woman in her 50s named Reyes Rigo Cervilla. She lives on the island of Mallorca and works as an acupuncture therapist, according to Spanish outlet El Pais.
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