British woman ‘gang raped by five Israeli men’ in Cyprus
"We take these allegations seriously. The CCTV footage should show whether she was taken against her will, and by force to the room," a police officer told The Guardian.
A 20-year-old woman claims to have been gang-raped by five Israeli men while on holiday in Cyprus.
The five men, all between the ages of 19 and 20, allegedly took the woman by force from the pool area to her hotel room in Ayia Napa where they proceed to rape her.
Police arrested the five Israelis from the town of Majd al-Krum whose detention were extended for another eight days to allow law enforcement to investigate the circumstances.
“They will be kept in custody in our holding cells in Paralimni. We take these allegations seriously,” a police officer in Ayia Napa told The Guardian. The woman was described as “highly distressed.”
“The CCTV footage should show whether she was taken against her will, and by force to the room,” the officer added.
The allegations come after another British woman accused 12 Israeli men of raping her in the same city in Cyprus in 2020. The woman from Derbyshire was jailed for six weeks for fabricating the claims but was later released after the Supreme Court overturned her conviction.
The Israeli men returned to Israel and denied any wrongdoing.
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