The Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office (Criminal) today (Sunday) filed an indictment in the city Magistrate’s Court against a resident of Ramat Gan, among other things for trespassing, violating privacy, violating a court order intended to protect a person and harassment through a Bezeq facility. This is after starting in 2015, the defendant began harassing Ilan Barda, because he rejected her courtship.
According to the indictment filed by attorney Maayan Shiovitz, six years ago the defendant met Barda at a gym. She began courting him and he rejected her.
Seeing that he was not responding to her, she began to bother him. She followed him, warned other women not to talk to him, stood outside his house and shouted that she loved him and wanted to marry him and entered his yard (in some cases without an invitation).
In addition, the defendant used to follow Barda, appear in meetings with his friends and family, call him countless times around the clock, harass his partner and post pictures of him on her Facebook page with a caption that they are getting married.
“She intends to marry Barda – or sit in jail”
Breda made it clear to the defendant that he was not interested in her courtship and asked that she leave him alone. At his request, the court issued several orders to prevent threatening harassment, however the defendant again violated the orders.
In one case, despite the existence of a protection order, which prohibits the defendant from approaching Barda, she ambushed him outside his home. When she noticed that he was getting into his car, she decided to follow him in the train as she overtook vehicles in a dangerous and life-threatening manner. Breda stopped his vehicle on the side of the road and called the police, who arrested the accused.
In another case, the defendant violated a protection order, prohibiting her from contacting Barda. Between August 2020 and February 2021, she called him more than 20,000 times and sent him more than 100 text messages.
In her request for detention until the end of the proceedings, Adv. Shiovitz stated: “The tangible risk posed to the complainant cannot be taken lightly, when the respondent states that she has nothing left to lose and intends to marry the complainant or sit in jail. This, of course, is in addition to the respondent’s poor reality test as stated. “