A man was indicted Thursday after he allegedly shoved to the ground and kicked a French nun in Jerusalem’s Old City last month, and then assaulted a passerby who tried to intervene.

Yona Schreiber, 36, from the West Bank settlement of Peduel, was charged with assault causing tangible bodily harm motivated by hostility toward a religious group.

The assault charge carries a maximum prison sentence of three years, which would be doubled if Schreiber is also convicted of acting out of religious animus.

The State Attorney’s Office requested that Schreiber be kept in custody until the end of the legal proceedings against him.

Video footage of the attack on the Old City’s Mount Zion in Jerusalem on April 28 showed a person identified as Schreiber running up to the French nun from behind and shoving her to the ground.

The attacker is seen walking away, then returning to kick the woman while she is down, and scuffling with a man who tries to stop him.

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