Police on Thursday morning, 8 Tammuz 5772 arrested two Arabs, residents of the Jerusalem village of Issawiya. They are suspected of starting a number of large fires in the capital during recent weeks; including the one at the Mount Scopus IDF base in which 14 soldiers were treated for smoke inhalation.
The suspects, ages 15 and 17 were remanded in the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Thursday morning, ordering them held over for an additional three days pending developments in the investigation. One of the suspects admitted to his actions and incriminated the second. The attorney for the second defendant denies the accuracy of the incriminating statements.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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