After calling the protesters in front of the prime minister's residence "disease spreaders" and claiming that "there are young people who know what to do," the late killer Emil Grinzweig will be questioned by police

• Yona Abrushmi in an interview with News 12

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Following the interview: The police open an investigation for incitement against Yona Abrushmi, the late left-wing activist Emil Grinzweig in 1983.

Earlier, it was reported on 103FM that Abrushmi was hospitalized yesterday after feeling ill. 

In an interview with the "Ulpan Shishi" program on News 12, Abrushmi referred to the demonstrators in front of the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem and said: "They are spreading diseases, they should be kept out of society." 

The killer explained in an interview why he was willing to sit in life imprisonment: "When you love a man you are willing to die for him. I loved Begin then as today they admire Netanyahu, and I love Netanyahu more than Begin. I do not go to Balfour today. There are young guys, they are They will go there, and they know what to do. "

Following the interview, the Crimea Minster movement, one of the organizers of the protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, filed a complaint of incitement against Acting Police Commissioner Moti Cohen. 

I watched in amazement at the incitement to violence by the killer Yona Abrushmi. As someone who still carries with him souvenirs of his murders and violence, in the form of shrapnel from the grenade he threw, I call on the Israeli police and law enforcement authorities to stop and interrogate Abrushmi for calling for violence and for allowing the blood of the protesters from the left >>

- Yuval Steinitz Yuval Steinitz (@steinitz_yuval) August 9, 2020

Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud), who was present at the demonstration at the time while active in Peace Now, such as the late Emil Grinzweig and was hit by the same grenade, responded today to Abrushmi's statement on Twitter: "I watched in amazement at the incitement to murder of Yona Abrushmi.

"As someone who still carries with him souvenirs of his murders and violence, in the form of shrapnel from the grenade he threw, I call on the Israeli police and law enforcement authorities to arrest and interrogate Avrushmi for calling for violence and bloodshed from left-wing protesters, just as the calls for assassination "This is also impossible to accept with the call for violence by the vile murderer Yona Abrushmi, who murdered the late Emil Grinzweig, and wounded me and other people."

The Israel Police stated: "The Israel Police, with the approval of the Deputy State Attorney for Special Positions, will open a criminal investigation against Yonah Abrushmi, in light of the fact that during an interview broadcast with him in one of the news programs on Friday. ".