he also might have tried to sexually attack 8yr old daughter
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=306271 : Burglar stabs woman before beaten by husband
By BEN HARTMAN
03/13/2013 12:05
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Police say unclear if burglar, a 22-year-old native of Sudan, also tried to sexually assault couple's 8-year-old daughter.
South Tel Aviv
South Tel Aviv Photo: Joe Yudin
A burglar stabbed a woman in the thigh after breaking into her house in south Tel Aviv early Wednesday morning, before he was fought off, badly injured by the woman's husband, and restrained with a telephone chord.
Tel Aviv District Police say they have still not been able to interrogate the man, a 22-year-old native of Sudan, now being taken for interrogation at Merhav Yiftqch, is no longer in hospital. The husband, a martial arts enthusiast, was questioned by police after the incident, but was released without charge, police said.
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Police said that at the moment it appears the man did not have the knife on him when he entered the apartment, rather that he took it from within the house. In addition, they are still unclear if the man tried to sexually assault the family's eight-year-old daughter, though they added that the mother found him in the girl's bed when she came into her room.
At the moment, the mother and daughter are still hospitalized at Wolfson Hospital.
A resident of the Hatikvah neighborhood said locals plan on holding a demonstration or protest of some sort in the neighborhood at 7pm Wednesday night.
Police said the Sudanese man has been in Israel since 2011 and is homeless and out of work.
The Yad Eliyahu neighborhood is one of a number of areas of south Tel Aviv that have seen an influx of tens of thousands of African migrants in recent years. In the past, highly-publicized acts of violence by African migrants have been met with protests by residents, as well as physical attacks and acts of vandalism. On Wednesday morning, a Tel Aviv police spokeswoman put out an announcement to Israeli journalists asking them to exercise responsibility in their reporting of the incident.
In late February, the Tel Aviv District Police released figures indicating a sharp rise in crime among the African migrant population in the district, home to the majority of the more than 60,000 migrants.
Police figures said that there was a 53.2 percent increase in the number of Sudanese and Eritreans suspected in crimes and a 45% increase in the opening of criminal cases against them in 2012. The figures also stated that there were 1,048 Sudanese and Eritreans named as suspects in crimes in 2012, as opposed to 684 in 2011, and 1,092 criminal cases opened against them in 2012 as opposed to 2011.
MK Ayelet Shaked (Bayit Yehudi), the head of a newly-founded "anti-infiltrators" Knesset caucus meant to find ways to jail or deport African migrants, seized on the event Wednesday, saying "the legal system's attempts to delay the solution to the infiltrators problem only worsens the problem and leads to difficult incidents like what happened tonight."
She added that Israel must find a third county to take the African migrant population, or deport them all to their home countries, Eritrea and Sudan, where they would be in danger of facing persecution upon return.
On Tuesday, the High Court of Justice ruled that the government must explain by April 30th why the so-called Infiltrators Law must remain in effect, following a petition to the court by a group of Israeli NGOs. The law allows Israel to jail people caught crossing the border illegally for three years or more.
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