Israelis held in Cyprus over alleged rape

Six Israeli citizens person been arrested successful Cyprus connected suspicion of raping a British tourist, Israel's overseas ministry says.

A connection said the Israeli embassy had been informed and that its consul was successful interaction with section authorities.

The UK Foreign Office said it was supporting a British pistillate successful Cyprus.

Cypriot media said a tribunal had ordered the detention of 5 foreigners for 8 days pending probe of an alleged rape of a tourer successful Ayia Napa.

There was nary contiguous confirmation from constabulary successful Cyprus, but Reuters quality bureau separately cited a constabulary root arsenic identifying the tourer arsenic a British woman.

The pistillate had filed a ailment with constabulary connected Sunday evening which alleged that she was attacked astatine her edifice successful Ayia Napa earlier that day, the root said.

The root said the 5 suspects who were aboriginal detained successful transportation with the alleged rape were Israeli men aged 19 and 20.

It was not wide wherefore determination was a discrepancy successful the fig of arrests.

A spokesperson for the UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office told the BBC: "We are supporting a British pistillate successful Cyprus and are successful interaction with the section authorities."

The Times of Israel paper meantime quoted Israeli lawyer Nir Yaslovitz arsenic telling Channel 12 TV: "According to the constabulary successful Cyprus, determination is simply a superior suspicion, but unluckily we person acquisition with specified cases. I anticipation that the information volition travel out."

In 2019, a British pistillate told constabulary successful Cyprus that she had been raped by 12 Israeli men and boys successful Ayia Napa.

She aboriginal retracted the allegation aft being held without a lawyer, and was past tried and convicted of causing nationalist mischief.

Her conviction, which outraged women's rights campaigners, was overturned connected entreaty astatine the Supreme Court successful Cyprus past year.