'Israeli doctors acted like Mengele'

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The President of Romanian Medical Council said Wednesday that the Israeli doctors arrested in Bucharest for allegedly running an illegal fertility clinic acted like Doctor Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi "Angel of Death" at Auschwitz.

"These people are mentally disturbed, and what they did can only be compared with what went on at Auschwitz" said Prof. Vasile Astărăstoae in an interview with local media cited by Army Radio.

Astărăstoae added that the Sabyc Clinic's activities had severe ethical problems, and that at the end of a protracted probe last year, the RMC had recommended shutting it down due to violations of elementary medical ethics. In addition, he said, until recently, the doctors working at the clinic did not have a license to practice medicine in Romania.

The physicians were arrested on suspicion of paying Romanian women to donate their eggs, some of whom, according to local media, were 15-year-old girls who were paid 250 euros.

The Israeli Consulate in Bucharest told the radio station that the ambassador would be sent to protest the Mengele comparison to the Romanian authorities.

Meanwhile, Yonit, one of the Israeli women present during Monday's raid, told the station that the local authorities had acted like Mengele, not the Israeli doctors.

"Those who acted like Dr. Mengele were the Romanian police, who forced us to sign a declaration in their language." she said. "They just split up into two groups: those who didn't sign went to one side, and those who did were sent to the other side. The situation was really reminiscent of [Nazi] selection."

Prosecutors were set to file 22 charges against the suspects, including Prof. Natan Levit and Genia Ziskind - two fertility experts whose remands were both extended, Romanian news agencies said.

In an interview with Israel Radio on Wednesday, Israeli Ambassador to Romania David Oren brushed off suggestions of anti-Semitism in the wake of the affair, saying that although Astărăstoae's remark was "totally unacceptable," it was "a comment made by one Romanian, nothing more."

He confirmed that Levit and Ziskind were banned from leaving Romania, while clinic owners Ari and Yair Meron were still serving a 29-day custody.

Oren said that rumors of other Israelis in the country having their passports confiscated were being checked.

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It's antisemitic to criticize monsters like Doctor JosePH Mengele