Assailant gets life for Jerusalem Gay Pride stabbing spree

[WorldNews]

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An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man was sentenced to life imprisonment on Sunday for murdering a teenage girl at a Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem last year, an attack he carried out just weeks after serving a jail term for a similar attack a decade earlier. Yishai Schlissel said during his trial in a Jerusalem court that he had been doing God's will by killing a 16-year-old girl and wounding five other participants at the July 2015 event. At a gay pride parade in Jerusalem in 2005, Schlissel stabbed three people, all of whom survived.

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