“Cypriot court acquitted five Israelis who were charged with rape British.” This title today’s Guardian report refers to a decision Monday made by the Famagusta Criminal Court on the acquittal of young men accused of abducting and raping a 20 -year -old British in Ayia Napa on September 3, 2023.
According to the report, the court ruling has enraged many, while “the appeals of the verdict are increasing”. According to the woman’s lawyer, this is yet another proof of the “patriarchal” justice system.
As the newspaper writes, the court ruled that the testimony of the 20 -year -old girl was not reliable because “she had no coherence and fell into many substantial contradictions”. At the same time, he notes that the Israeli defendants argued “that sexual intercourse with the woman was made with her consent.”
Speaking to the newspaper, Mr Pollak characterizes the court’s reasoning as “absurd”, stressing, among other things, that the young girl is homosexual “, while saying that any claim that the girl” voluntarily agreed to have a group sex with men who had no language, who had no language “.
Mr Pollak, who runs the legal team Justice Abroad, based in London, also states that “recently, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that there was no effective protection for women who are subject to sexual offenses in the Republic of Cyprus”, noting that “unfortunately I have not seen it.”
Speaking about the reaction of the young Briton, whose identity has not been revealed for protection reasons, he said he was very sad by the court’s verdict, while he says that “it was one of the most difficult phone calls I ever had to make” to inform her.
Source: KYPE