From: NewNowNext
An Israeli court has given a life sentence to a man who killed a teenager and injured five others at last year’s gay pride parade in Jerusalem.
At the time of his arrest, Yishai Schlissel said he had been doing God’s will when he attacked the parade-goers. Schlissel infiltrated the parade after wrapping up a 10-year sentence for a previous anti-LGBT hate crime he’d committed in 2005.
Upon his release in 2015, Schlissel made the rounds to various media outlets calling for his fellow countrymen to act out against homosexuality, even if it meant enduring “beatings or imprisonment.” He implored them to join him in the fight to put a stop to the Pride parade in Jerusalem.
In their ruling against Schlissel, the court criticized police, who they said knew of the threat he posed. Allegedly, on the day of the parade in 2015, he’d been turned away at a barricade by officials, but was able to slip in later via a side street. Many of these officers were later sanctioned or reassigned.
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