The fourth just watched (illustration photo)
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Eilat: 3 soldiers suspected of rape
IDF troops suspected of raping female soldier while on vacation in southern town of Eilat; fourth soldier accused of witnessing the rape without trying to prevent it
Three IDF soldiers are suspected of raping a female soldier while on vacation in the southern town of Eilat.
Another soldier is suspected of witnessing the rape without trying to prevent it.
The Eilat Magistrates Court extended the soldiers’ remand on Sunday by three days.
In a complaint filed with Eilat Police, the female soldier, a resident of a central Israel town, said she was at Eilat’s “Platinum” nightclub last Thursday when she met a soldier and accompanied him to his hotel room at the end of the evening.
According to the complainant, three of the soldier’s friends arrived a short while later; the soldier she had met in the nightclub and two others proceeded to rape her while the fourth looked on, she claimed.
The three soldiers are accused of rape and the fourth is accused of failing to prevent a crime.
Military Police are not involved in the investigation, as the soldiers were on vacation when the alleged crime was committed.
Eilat Police said an indictment is expected to be filed on Tuesday at the Beer Sheva District Court.
