The Jerusalem Magistrates Court on Monday extended the arrest of a public bus inspector suspected of attacking passengers at the Jerusalem Central Station.
According to the police, a woman in an advanced month of pregnancy was attacked when trying to exit the bus with her husband, when the bus stopped at a bus stop. As the two disembarked, bus inspectors boarded and asked the couple to present their bus tickets.
A altercation ensued between the two sides, which included mutual shoving, after the woman had disembarked she was suddenly violently kicked by one of the inspectors.
As a result of the violence, the woman was required to undergo a medical examination.
The suspect, a resident of Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods in his 20s, was arrested and taken for questioning. His arrest has been extended.