Israeli Official May Face Sex Assault Charges
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The Israeli police today recommended that Transport Minister Yitzhak Mordechai not monitored on three counts of sexual assaults that are humiliating a clash against former General, the Prime Minister, during the past year as the first candidate for Israel sephardischen history. Mr. Mordechai, 55, joined his post temporarily to the police began its investigation into a complaint filed by an employee 23 years in the Ministry of Transport. He said today he had with the firm, where the Attorney General has been following the recommendation of the police to file charges against her. It is likely, but not necessarily. It is a sad for Mr. Tumbler Mordechai, a career soldier, Iraqi-born, fought his way into the ranks, to the discrimination against immigrants in the Near East, until he reached the climax of the Army and Chief of Staff and Minister of Defence. They head the new party center, which is composed of six members of Parliament, has chosen as its candidate for prime minister during a failed attempt, which maintain the two major parties, Likud and Labour Party. Mr. Mordechai, with a very poor showing verneigte times in the 11th, and threw his support to Ehud Barak, candidate of the Workers’ Party, and now the Prime Minister. ”I am innocent and schuldlos,”Mr. Mordechai said in a statement today. ”I intend, with the whole of my struggle for justice and may well my name.” The Israeli police began its consideration of the complaint by the woman, who like Mr. Mordechai’s subordinates. During its investigation of public opinion, she received many other allegations, that Mr. Mordechai had zwangsweise””unsittlicher acts of the army on women during his career, and the monitoring of political life, the police report said. In several instances, the statute of limitations had expired, said the police. But she seemed to gather evidence to confirm that the claims of three women. Two attacks, the allegations of Mr. Mordechai in terms of housing, in the year 1996, as previously Minister of Defence, and the other in 1992, when he has a case to case. The third was the Department of Transport workers. The women said Mordechai had tried to force her, kiss her and try to liebkosen. The 23-old woman-were originally intended to get help to Zehava Gal-On, a legislator from the left. Ms. Gal-on and Avraham Burg, the spokesman of the Parliament, asked the woman in a complaint to the police. ”It does two things,”Ms. Gal-on said of the woman. ”It has been increased. And she has a message to women, you have to complain that things are not under carpets are no longer that the rules of the game have changed - you can not attack women is simple, because the one in a position of leadership And would it dare a complaint.” Correction: April 20, 2000, Thursday, Monday, an article about a recommendation that the police Israeli Transportation Minister Yitzhak Mordechai not be pursued at the expense of sexual coercion misstated his background. Although he is a former Defence Minister and a former general, he had no army as chief of staff. |