The ombudsman was forced to replace the indictment against the prime minister because Netanyahu was not questioned with a warning before his submission. Justice will act in Netanyahu • Opinion
Mandelblit.
Did justice to himself
Photography:
Oren Ben Hakon
25 senior Saladin lawyers have been sitting on the bench for years and finally, when the prime minister met with the US president, they ran to the building opposite and filed an indictment against him. The heads of the Israel Democracy Institute) to assist in reaching this moment, when they mistakenly thought they would lead to the removal of an incumbent prime minister.
Following the defense arguments, the Attorney General was forced to replace the indictment, as ordered by the court.
It became clear that Mandelblit chose to prosecute himself, and in violation of the law, the prime minister prosecuted without being questioned with a police warning for the indictment.
The "just not Bibi" sect and the journalists who chose to challenge the attorney general looked down on this fundamental flaw, since the entire legal process in court is unnecessary, and the sentence awaiting publication can only be read.
Mandelblit on filing the indictment against Netanyahu in court // Archive photo: Moshe Ben Simhon
On November 12, 2011, a five-judge panel published its ruling in another hearing in HCJ 7506/19, on the Supreme Court's decision to oblige Attorney General Mandelblit to file an indictment against a police officer for the 2014 shooting that killed Khir Hamdan. The deceased.
Five justices have gathered for them after Supreme Court President Esther Hayut accepted Mandelblit's request and the police officer to hold another hearing, limited to the question of whether an indictment could be ordered against a person who was not questioned with a warning.
Exactly so.
More than six years after the killing, after the policeman presented his version to DIP investigators, and after dozens of hours of hearings in the State Attorney's Office and the Attorney General's Office, as well as in the Supreme Court throughout the years they reviewed and examined the policeman's version, which was also brought through his lawyers. To the government that the policeman cannot be prosecuted criminally, as commanded by High Court judges, because he was not questioned with a warning.
The five judges ruled: "Indeed, the rule is that in order to have a fair trial against a defendant, he must be questioned under caution before an indictment is filed against him ... and that an indictment should not be filed against him without such an investigation."
Judge Solberg remarked: "We are not seeking a 'technical' correction to a fault that has fallen, but a substantial correction, in order to get down to the investigation of the truth."
Justice was not done with the late Khir Hamdan even seven years after his death, as Mandelblit has not yet decided whether to prosecute the policeman who shot him.
Mandelblit did not approve, as required by the Basic Law: The Government, the opening of an investigation against the Prime Minister, nor did he give his written instructions to investigators as to what suspicion could be investigated.
Indeed, in the end, it turned out that the prime minister was not questioned with a warning about what was attributed to him in the indictment.
It now remains to be seen how the justice and justice system will behave in the Israeli prime minister.
Mandelblit has long been busy only with himself.