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Dragged to the bathroom and wished he would die: A policeman who beat a civil rights activist accused of assaulting his wife - Walla! news

2020-11-04T12:11:52.120Z


Former patrol officer Lior Hatam is accused of attacking and activating social activist Jafar Farah and seven other protesters. Another indictment filed against him for various violent offenses against his wife, a policewoman at the Coastal Police Station, reveals a portrait of a violent man.


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He dragged to the bathroom and wished he would die: A policeman who beat a civil rights activist is accused of assaulting his wife

Former patrol officer Lior Hatam is accused of attacking and activating social activist Jafar Farah and seven other protesters.

Another indictment filed against him for various violent offenses against his wife, a policewoman at the Coastal Police Station, reveals a portrait of a violent man.

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Yoav Itiel

Wednesday, 04 November 2020, 13:30

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Photography: Shlomi Gabay, Editing: Tal Reznik

The Department of Police Investigations at the Ministry of Justice filed an indictment yesterday (Tuesday) against Officer Lior Hatam for assault and threats.

The 36-year-old underwriter is accused of harassing his wife, an intelligence desk who also serves in the police, and also threatened to kill her.

According to the indictment, he kicked her in one case to the point of fainting.

Although the two are still registered as married, they do not live under the same roof.

According to the charges against him, Hatam committed the offenses while his trial for assaulting civil rights activist Jafar Farah is still ongoing.



The two married in April 2016 and a year later they had a daughter together.

About six months later, Hatam's wife left the apartment in Afula where they lived and the baby with her.

However, according to the PID, even after you've never lived together, drove signed harass his wife calls annoying, insults and threats.



In one of the events, according to the indictment, signed kicked his wife several times to rouse her after she fell backwards and recognition weaker. Unable to , He dragged her to the bath, put her inside and washed her in cold water while wearing her clothes, cursing her and wishing her death.

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Former police officer Lior signed a hearing on charges against him, January (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

The indictment states that the DIP knew of the suspicion of violence attributed to him and in June 2017, about a year before the attack attributed to him against Farah, during which he broke his leg, the unit seized Hatam's personal weapon. She will not ask a DIP investigator to return his weapon to him, he "will not bother to mend the marriage."

His wife did call DIP and begged the investigator to return the gun to him.



According to the indictment, the tension between the couple erupted in light of the woman's discovery that he had cheated on her, even during her pregnancy. Of his wife.

Social activist Jaafar Farah after the assault incident in which he was signed signed last year (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

DIP claims that about a week after the baby was born, another violent incident occurred, during which Shaar signed his wife as she tried to prevent him from leaving their house, and as a result she rolled down the stairs along with a shopping cart that was parked outside the apartment, skipping over In addition, he is accused that at one point, he slapped her, shook her, threw her on the bed and threw her pills through the window.



The latest incident was reported to DIP and a signer was subsequently removed from his wife.

Among the statements attributed to him by the indictment: "You understand only by intimidation, only by murderous blows; the fact that I threw a drawer at you and kept your mouth shut."



The harassment attributed to him also occurred in the month following the attack on Jafar Farah.

The indictment states that in one day in 2018 he called her 22 times from an unidentified phone number in his possession, and hung up.

This, "in a manner that could harm, intimidate, harass, create anxiety or unlawfully upset," the indictment said.

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In a previous incident, a defendant signed that during a demonstration that took place without a permit in Haifa, while there was confidence in the safety of the detainees at the station, he attacked eight detainees, including Jafar Farah, director of the Mossawa Center for Arab Civil Rights in Israel.



According to the indictment, Hatam attacked the detainees while sitting on the floor and handcuffed.

Some claimed in front of him that they were attacked by police during the demonstration, while Hatam responded that "today we will have a party" and "I will fuck you".

He also sent racist chants at them.

Following the incident, a DIP investigation was opened against him and he was taken on forced leave.

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