Equipped with fuel tank and knife: Right-wing activist accused of trying to commit hate crime in Abu Ghosh

A working generation arrived in the village at night to deliberately carry a price tag and were arrested by police officers who were on the scene. According to the indictment, his actions were done "with the intention of damaging the property of the villagers and spraying inscription with a motive to humiliate". The activist claimed violence in his interrogation. Defense Attorney: "Security Service Rioting for Hill Boys"

Equipped with fuel tank and knife: Right-wing activist accused of trying to commit hate crime in Abu Ghosh

(Video: suspected price tag in Shuafat)

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The Jerusalem District Attorney filed an indictment on the right-wing activist on Sunday for attempting to commit a hate crime. According to the indictment, a working generation arrived equipped with a fuel tank and a knife to destroy residents' property "from a racist ideological motive of hostility to the Arab public", but was seized by police.

According to the indictment, on January 5, a bus worker arrived in Abu Ghosh carrying all fuel and a knife. He began marching in the town, equipped with gloves, paint spray, lighter and pepper gas, with the intention of making a "price tag". A patrol car traveling around the area at that time noticed him and he was detained. According to the indictment, an employee tried to hide the knife he had. The actions were done "with the intention of triggering a price tag, damaging the property of the villagers and spraying inscription with a motive to humiliate, despise, show hostility and violence and cause publicity and public outrage for its involvement in the Arab sector," the indictment reads. The employee is attributed to offenses of attempting to destroy a racial motive, unlawfully possessing a knife and disrupting legal proceedings. The prosecutor's office sought to extend his detention until the end of the proceedings.

A mobile examiner noticed the employee and he was delayed. Price tag near Givat Ze'ev (Photo: Tzaba family)

Suspected of hate crime in the Halayla neighborhood, near Givat Ze'ev, December 19, 2019 (Photo: Tzaba family, official website)

An employee was interrogated by the Shin Bet and prevented him from meeting with a lawyer for about a week. He remained silent during his investigations, but claimed violence in his investigations. An employee was recently sentenced to incitement to violence, and was also previously convicted of racist motives. Attorney Avihai Hajabi who represents The defendant on behalf of the Geuno organization attacked the conduct of the Shin Bet, the indictment filed today unequivocally proves the violation of the defendant's rights, the fact that the security service is rioting that they are hill boys. There can be no situation that at the end of the day we come to court with an indictment that could be investigated in three days by a local police station in Jerusalem. "