Jerusalem Magistrate Court Justice Anat Singer on Wednesday, 20 Menachem Av, ordered Yishai Schlisel to undergo a comprehensive psychiatric exam. Schlisel last week carried out a stabbing attack against participants in the Jerusalem gay parade, murdering a teenage girl and leaving five others wounded.
The court on Wednesday afternoon ruled it must be determined if Yishai is fit to stand trial for his actions. The exam must be carried out within 48 hours and the court will hear the results on Tuesday, 26 Menachem Av.
About a decade ago, when Schlisel wounded a number of participants in the toeiva parade in his first stabbing attack. The psychiatric exam ruled he was fit to stand trial. He was released from prison about three weeks prior to perpetrating the latest attack.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Maybe these geniuses should have ordered a psychiatric exam a few weeks ago before releasing him.
I’d like to order a psychiatric exam on them.
How about a psychiatric exam for all those who attended the parade?
[It’s PC in this age to claim for their defense that their proclivities should be blamed on extraneous factors,correct?]
The government of Yerushalayim should have never allowed the march due the religious sensitivities of the majority of the citizens that the government represents. The fact that the municipality and local Yerushalayim gave a permit for this parade to occur is completely irresponsible and an act of true government negligence.
This has nothing to do with Israeli laws of freedom of speech. Not permitting a parade like this in Yerushalayim would not be a blocking of freedom of speech but rather government working on behalf the body politic they represent. That is the basic function of all government. In Yerushalayim, the vast majority of the citizens both Jewish and non Jewish (Christians and Muslims) are strongly against this “lifestyle”. If the government were properly doing their job and working for the people who elected them, none of this would have occurred.