Famed mentalist Uri Geller has led police to a man responsible for spray-painting swastikas all over Tel Aviv, but not by using his supposed psychic abilities. Geller provided police with security camera footage showing the suspect, 37, in the act of painting a swastika on a wall in the Old City of Jaffa.
The suspect, a resident of Tel Aviv, was arrested Saturday night. Police discovered that he was a fugitive from prison for other offenses.
At the man's remand hearing, police alleged that in addition to the vandalism, the suspect had also set trash bins on fire, but Tel Aviv Magistrates' Court Judge Itai Hermelin remanded him to house arrest.
"The police representative is unable to provide evidence that links the defendant to setting fires in trash bins, and I do not believe that the crime of [painting] swastikas constitutes a reason for him to be jailed," the judge ruled.
