Eilat rape allegations: Tel Aviv covers over Peeping Toms beach mural

The Israeli authorities maintain lined over a mural identified as Peeping Toms at a sea slide in Tel Aviv in line with an outcry over the suspected gang rape of a teenage lady at another sea slide resort.

The mural presentations two younger males in bathing suits peering inside of what’s the girls’s changing room.

Almost 20 years frail, it commemorates a 1970s film of the identical name that used to be partly filmed on the sea slide.

Ladies’s rights groups had long demanded the mural’s casting off.

Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai tweeted (in Hebrew) that the time had come to duvet it over after the alleged assault in Eilat.

“Freedom of expression and the arts are fundamental values in our metropolis nonetheless since the painting used to be viewed as acceptance of a forbidden and prison act, now we maintain got made up our minds to hiss goodbye to it,” he used to be quoted as announcing by Reuters data agency.

What are the allegations in Eilat?

Police launched an investigation this month into the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-frail lady at a hotel in Eilat.

No longer now not up to three other folks had been detained to this level. One of the well-known suspects mentioned larger than 30 males had had sex with the girl nonetheless denied rape, in accordance with local media experiences.

The males are accused of raping the teenager whereas she used to be intoxicated.

Final year, a 19-year-frail British lady claimed she had been gang-raped by 12 Israeli males at a hotel in Cyprus. She used to be later found responsible of lying about being raped and given a four-month suspended sentence.

The case used to be denounced by girls’s rights groups. The 19-year-frail’s lawyer mentioned she used to be attention-grabbing in opposition to her conviction.