Bucharest – The police raid on the Romanian fertility clinic that ended in the arrest of 30 Israeli doctors working on the site has caused no small amount of stress for the families of the detained doctors.
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“We are very stressed out. Nevertheless, we aren’t speaking with him every single minute,” said Chen Levitt, daughter of Prof. Nathan Levitt, to Ynet on Tuesday. Levitt is among the Israelis being investigated in Romania for allegedly trafficking in human eggs and is, therefore, not being allowed back to Israel at the current time. His daughter claims that the Israeli medical community has not come to her father’s side out of fear.
Some 30 Israelis were arrested Monday at a clinic as they were accompanying their Israeli fertility patients through the embryo implantation process. According to the Romanian authorities, the eggs were illegally harvested from poor local woman in exchange for money. The courts extended the remand of clinic owners, Harry and Yair Miron. Prof. Levitt and Dr. Ganya Ziskind are being detained, while the others who were arrested have been released.
Chen spoke with her father Monday night and said that he is currently staying in a hotel in Bucharest and trying to find a lawyer to represent him. According to her, Dr. Ziskind’s family is with her in Romania.
‘They cursed them and took their money’
Chen recounted the police raid on the Sabyc clinic as her father described it to her. “The treatment of the Romanian police was disgraceful,” she said. “My father told us that all of a sudden in the middle of the day, a group of masked men entered the clinic armed with Kalashnikovs.
“My father, who was just in the middle of a medical procedure, didn’t know how to respond. Everyone was very alarmed. There was hysteria there. Many people cried, and one woman fainted,” Chen said. “Ganya shouted at the Romanian police that no one has held us with our faces to the wall since 1939.”
According to her, the Romanian police were tough with the detainees: “They didn’t let them drink or eat all day. They were very violent with them. They shoved them and cursed at them, and took all their money.”
There again “Israelis” but! It was known in Europe for years that the biggest robbers are the Romanians.
Thirty Israeli doctors at ONE clinic in Bucharest. This sounds like a real “baby factory” without any ethical oversight and simply a big money machine for desparate yiiddeshem parents seeking to become pregnant by purchasing fertile eggs from local donors. The same options are available in EY but under much stricter regulations so they simply take their business overseas.
thats the thanks we get for making more of them…helping them reproduce….
Israelis running illegal medical clinics in foreign countries, and you will see all secular newspapers reporting the terrible abuse of the Romanian police and the incarceration of these doctors.
Yes, it will remind us all, of the abuse suffered by our brothers and sisters in Israel from the israeli police forces.
We leave the rest for you to analyze.
The Romanian police must have learned barbarism from the Israeli police!
Isn’t it ironic that it was the doctors in Israel and here on VIN who were the first to jump to the aid of the doctors of Hadassah, and demonize the protesters? Poetic justice!
They should start the “Bones For Eggs” deal.
they were illegally harvesting eggs and then selling them. ILLEGALLY, period. When you do something illegal you pay for the consequences. Now the criminals are trying to blame the police? If you don’t want the police to throw you against a wall and arrest you DON’T COMMIT THE CRIME!!!