2009 gay club shooting was revenge for sexual assault

[King_David]

Suspected shooter named as Haggai Felician, whose relative was allegedly molested by the intended target, a gay activist

By Asher Zeiger June 11, 2013, 11:53 am 3

An August 2009 shooting in a Tel Aviv gay youth club that killed two and injured 11 was a revenge attack for a sexual assault, according to details from the case approved for publication by a Tel Aviv court on Tuesday.

The details had already been released by police on Monday afternoon in a press conference. However, half an hour after the information was widely circulated in Israeli media, the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court announced that the gag order was still in place, forcing news sites to unpublish their stories and replace them with headlines that screamed about the “farcical” court order.





An August 2009 shooting in a Tel Aviv gay youth club that killed two and injured 11 was a revenge attack for a sexual assault, according to details from the case approved for publication by a Tel Aviv court on Tuesday.

The details had already been released by police on Monday afternoon in a press conference. However, half an hour after the information was widely circulated in Israeli media, the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court announced that the gag order was still in place, forcing news sites to unpublish their stories and replace them with headlines that screamed about the “farcical” court order.

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Last Wednesday, four suspects were arrested in connection with the case: the shooter, a relative of his, another accomplice, and a fourth man, described as a senior LGBT activist, who allegedly molested a relative of the shooter and whom the first three set out to kill.

On Tuesday, the court approved for publication the name of the prime suspect in the shooting, Haggai Felician, 23, and an accomplice, Tarlan Hankishayev, 26, both from the Pardes Katz neighborhood in Bnei Brak.

Felician set out to kill the gay activist after he heard that a relative of his, who was 15 at the time, was sexually assaulted by him, police said.


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[Behind the Aegis]

1. This is not good.

However, given this is just starting out, are we talking an actual assault, or a gay sexual experience? Of course, I also don't know what the age laws are in Israel. I know they vary from state to state and country to country.

[King_David]

2. Details are sparse because there is a gag order for now. nt