A British woman who claimed she was gang-raped in Cyprus has been arrested on suspicion of making a false accusation as police released seven Israeli tourists from custody.
The 19-year-old woman had claimed that 12 Israeli teenagers raped her on July 17 at a hotel in the popular holiday resort of Ayia Napa.
The teenagers were remanded in custody the following day. Five were sent home hours before their second scheduled court hearing last Thursday after no evidence was found against them.
The other seven were released on Sunday after the woman reportedly changed her story after being shown video evidence by investigators.
The woman told investigators she initially filed a rape report after feeling "angry and insulted" that some of the Israelis had filmed her having sex with them, according to the state-run Cyprus News Agency.
“I went down from the room and met two of my friends. I told them what had happened and they immediately told me to file a complaint with police,” Israeli media outlet Channel 12 quoted her as saying.
The suspects told the outlet that the woman agreed to be filmed and "everything was consensual."
"She wanted sex," one of them said.
During a custody hearing last week, investigators told a court in the town of Paralimni that the woman was in a relationship with one of the seven suspects and had sexual contact with some of the other six over several days, according to Yiannis Habaris, a Cypriot lawyer representing two of the suspects.
"As I have argued throughout the process, there was no rape in Cyprus," said Nir Yaslovitzh, an Israeli lawyer representing some of the remaining suspects. "The young men who went on a vacation that became a nightmare will go home today."
On their release the young men were greeted outside the police district headquarters in Paralimni by jubilant family members.
The 12 Israelis had come to Ayia Napa in three separate groups, some on holiday before being inducted into the army, and did not know each other, said Mr Yaslovitzh.
On his release from custody, the Israeli teen considered the prime suspect said, "the truth has been revealed."
“God will punish her. We don’t care whether she is prosecuted, the main thing is that she has been arrested,” he told the Times of Israel. “All the teenagers coming to Ayia Napa need to be careful.”
The UK provides Cyprus with its biggest tourist market, with over 1.3 million British tourists visiting the eastern Mediterranean island last year, according to official Cypriot statistics.
Cyprus is also a major destination for Israeli tourists, with more than 230,000 visiting in 2019.
Ayia Napa Mayor Yiannis Karousos told Israel’s Channel 13 news that legal action would be taken against anyone involved in the false allegation, including the woman herself.
“In the following days, the council of ministers will approve the installation of CCTV cameras around the city of Ayia Napa, the first of their type in Cyprus,” he added. “Because tourists don’t just have to be safe, they have to feel they are safe."
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I'm glad there are still countries that have men in charge. Unlike America and the rest of the anglosphere that is too pussy ass scared to prosecute female false accusers Cyprus actually has the guts to hold women accountable. I'm glad to see there are places where real men rule. With the exception of President Trump, girlie men run America and that has to change.
Showing posts with label accountability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label accountability. Show all posts
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Tell the Hancock County Officials in the Maine Legislature to hold Mary N. Kellett accountable
Kellett’s dominos need to fall
Word has reached editors of AVfM that a plea deal is forthcoming in the case of corrupt Bar Harbor Maine prosecutor Mary Kellett. We are not pleased by this deal and we urge legal authorities in Maine to reject it in favor of a full public airing of the charges against Kellett.
While a guilty plea might bring some small measure of satisfaction to Vladick Filler, we suspect that Kellett’s corruption did not begin and end with his case, and indeed, all of Kellett’s cases, regardless of their outcomes, deserve a full public review, and all the guilty pleas and verdicts obtained during and under Kellett’s tenure as prosecutor should be thrown out.
We understand that, for the legal system in Maine, this would cause an expensive legal nightmare that could drag on for decades. Real justice, however, is not easy or cheap. A corrupt prosecutor can force the innocent to make otherwise unconscionable plea deals. A corrupt prosecutor can obtain faulty and unjust convictions. A lone defendant, facing the awesome power of the state, is in a bad enough situation already without the evil machinations of an evidence-hiding, man-hating ideologue behind the prosecutor’s table.
The legal authorities of Maine have no one to blame except themselves for tolerating Kellett’s antics for so long. The trail of unstable dominos built over the years by Kellett and those in her office need to start falling, and falling hard, on camera and in public, to send a clear message that Justice still matters in a culture that seems increasingly content to blame the innocent for the crimes of others.
Additionally, the people of Maine should demand, as the editors of AVfM do, an additional inquiry into the office of Kellett’s supervisor, District Attorney Carletta Bassano, to determine her degree of complicity in Mary Kellett’s malfeasance. Corruption usually starts at the top, and attempting to shield the District Attorney’s office by cauterizing Kellett’s crimes should be rejected by the people and authorities of Maine.
The world is watching.
[In October of last year JTO madethis impassioned rant and, in response, Suzanne said this:
Suz
JtO, thanks for this; it’s perfect.
My suggestion to every person reading this, is to link and/or copy and paste it in an email, or print it as snail mail, and send it to the Maine state legislature.
Hancock County Officials of the Maine Legislature
This site has contact information for every member, including home emails, phone numbers, and addresses.
Open it and spend an hour sending emails.
We here at AVfM are asking you to do just that right now. If you're in Maine, contact your state legislature, if you're outside of Maine, Hell, do it too.
And if you can get to Portland Maine, give JTO a shout at:
john@avoiceformen.com
We've managed to push this rock up to the top of the hill and if we manage just one more ounce of effort, it'll finally be over the crown and then there's no stopping it.
Just DO it!--AVfM Editors]
Source:click here
Word has reached editors of AVfM that a plea deal is forthcoming in the case of corrupt Bar Harbor Maine prosecutor Mary Kellett. We are not pleased by this deal and we urge legal authorities in Maine to reject it in favor of a full public airing of the charges against Kellett.
While a guilty plea might bring some small measure of satisfaction to Vladick Filler, we suspect that Kellett’s corruption did not begin and end with his case, and indeed, all of Kellett’s cases, regardless of their outcomes, deserve a full public review, and all the guilty pleas and verdicts obtained during and under Kellett’s tenure as prosecutor should be thrown out.
We understand that, for the legal system in Maine, this would cause an expensive legal nightmare that could drag on for decades. Real justice, however, is not easy or cheap. A corrupt prosecutor can force the innocent to make otherwise unconscionable plea deals. A corrupt prosecutor can obtain faulty and unjust convictions. A lone defendant, facing the awesome power of the state, is in a bad enough situation already without the evil machinations of an evidence-hiding, man-hating ideologue behind the prosecutor’s table.
The legal authorities of Maine have no one to blame except themselves for tolerating Kellett’s antics for so long. The trail of unstable dominos built over the years by Kellett and those in her office need to start falling, and falling hard, on camera and in public, to send a clear message that Justice still matters in a culture that seems increasingly content to blame the innocent for the crimes of others.
Additionally, the people of Maine should demand, as the editors of AVfM do, an additional inquiry into the office of Kellett’s supervisor, District Attorney Carletta Bassano, to determine her degree of complicity in Mary Kellett’s malfeasance. Corruption usually starts at the top, and attempting to shield the District Attorney’s office by cauterizing Kellett’s crimes should be rejected by the people and authorities of Maine.
The world is watching.
[In October of last year JTO madethis impassioned rant and, in response, Suzanne said this:
Suz
JtO, thanks for this; it’s perfect.
My suggestion to every person reading this, is to link and/or copy and paste it in an email, or print it as snail mail, and send it to the Maine state legislature.
Hancock County Officials of the Maine Legislature
This site has contact information for every member, including home emails, phone numbers, and addresses.
Open it and spend an hour sending emails.
We here at AVfM are asking you to do just that right now. If you're in Maine, contact your state legislature, if you're outside of Maine, Hell, do it too.
And if you can get to Portland Maine, give JTO a shout at:
john@avoiceformen.com
We've managed to push this rock up to the top of the hill and if we manage just one more ounce of effort, it'll finally be over the crown and then there's no stopping it.
Just DO it!--AVfM Editors]
Source:click here
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