Yarden Noi, who was stabbed and wounded at the 2015 Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade, is reportedly seeking millions of shekels in damages from the attacker and police.
Noi is demanding NIS 2.5 million ($650,000) from the attacker Yishai Schlissel and from the police, Channel 10 reports.
On July 30, 2015, Schlissel knifed and killed 16-year-old Shira Banki, and injured six others, despite a heavy police presence at the parade.
Yishai Schlissel, who stabbed seven people at the annual Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade on July 30, 2015, is seen in the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on July 31, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Noi says that police were negligent in their preparations to safeguard the event.
The court that convicted Schlissel said that police had failed to intercept Schlissel, who previously served 10 years in prison for a similar but not-fatal attack on the 2005 Gay Pride Parade. He was released just weeks before carrying out the repeat attack in 2015.
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