A new complaint has been filed against Gur Levi, a 25-year-old Tel Aviv resident already suspected of sex offenses and privacy violations, as the case widened further in Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. The latest complainant said she came forward after reading media reports and concluded that Levi was allegedly carrying out similar acts. She claims he recorded an intimate act involving the two of them without her consent and later distributed the footage.
Police told the court that Levi was interrogated and linked himself to parts of the case, but denied sending a video to the complainant. Investigators said they have correspondence that points otherwise. They also said the file, which is being handled with the State Attorney’s Office, still needs additional investigative work because of the large amount of media files that must be reviewed. Police added that more complainants may yet be identified and warned of a real risk of obstruction, saying Levi refused to give access code to his phone and may have deleted content from it. Officers are also examining a claim by one complainant that a date-rape drug may have been used.
Levi’s lawyer, attorney Shir Aharonson, argued that the grounds for detention are weakening as the investigation progresses. She said most of the work has already been done, the complainants have testified, one confrontation has been held, and most witnesses have been questioned. She also said Levi cooperated, did not try to flee, and came to police on his own after the reports surfaced. On the drug allegation, she said he does not deny having had sex with the complainant, but insists it was fully consensual, and that there is no objective evidence of any drug.
Judge Ravit Pelag Bar Dayan found reasonable suspicion and extended Levi’s remand by five days, citing the expanding investigation, the initial changing-room filming complaint, the later rape complaint, and now the new intimate-recording allegation. She said there are grounds of dangerousness and fear of obstruction. The case began earlier this month after influencer Shir Weiss said she saw a phone held over a fitting-room partition at TLV Mall in Tel Aviv filming her while she was naked, confronted the man, and later filed a police complaint.
