Police checkpoint in the north, this week(Photo: Daniel Selma)Two residents of a local council restaurant
On the Golan Heights, a 53-year-old lawyer, a lawyer, was brutally beaten at the checkpoint as a council volunteer. As a result of the beating, two ribs were broken in his body, and he suffered bruises and bloodshed throughout his upper body.
The two are charged with assault and causing injury, and in the Kiryat Shmona Magistrate’s Court, the police sought to extend their detention until the end of the proceedings. The defendants claim the attacker taunted them, threw a cigarette at them and cursed.
Barriers following traffic restrictions. archives(Photo: AFP)
The incident took place four days ago, on the road leading from a restaurant to a settlement in Uqata. Against the backdrop of traffic restrictions during the Corona crisis,
The council set up a roadblock. According to the indictment, the volunteer was standing at the checkpoint with two other people, with whom they had delayed the vehicles they were passing and checked their occupants.
The indictment filed by police alleges that “the two arrived at the scene together, got off and began pursuing the complainant who fled them. Immediately they arrived.
The accused approached the complainant and knocked him to the ground, attacked him and began to attack him with punches, punches and kicks, causing him a real injury. ”The other two volunteers and bystanders stopped the further assault.
Attorney Zahar Abbas, who represents one of the defendants, said the two deny what was attributed to them. That’s how the event started, “he said.
The decision on their release or further detention will be made on Sunday. In the police request to extend the detention until the end of the proceedings, the police prosecutor said the defendants’ versions were contradictory, stating that one of them even claimed: “The complainant wanted me to attack him.”
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