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Victory will pay NIS 100,000 to a young man of Ethiopian descent because of discrimination
Yuval Makoria filed a lawsuit following the case, after the network sued him for defamation.
He presented documentation according to which the customers who came after him - came in with the backpack and won hundreds of thousands of views.
Now, the court has ruled in his favor and it has been decided that the chain and the branch manager will pay him compensation in the amount of 75,000 as well as a fee
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Maya Horodnichano
Thursday, 27 May 2021, 13:32 Updated: 13:46
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The branch and chain manager will pay.
Victory branch (Photo: Flash 90, Miriam Elster)
The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court ruled today (Wednesday) that the Victory food chain must pay one hundred thousand shekels to Yuval Makoria, a young man of Ethiopian descent who filed a lawsuit after they refused to put him in one of the branches with a backpack on his body.
At the beginning of 2018, the young man arrived at the Victory branch in Beit Shemesh but was asked to leave his bag at the entrance to the branch.
After noticing inside the supermarket were people carrying various bags, the young man realized that she had been discriminated against.
Following the incident, he shot a video in which he describes what happened and uploaded it to social media.
The video garnered hundreds of thousands of comments and shares on Facebook.
Following the publication, the branch manager filed a lawsuit against him in the amount of NIS 100,000 for violating the Defamation Prohibition Law, and the Victory chain filed a similar lawsuit against him.
Mekoria contacted the government unit to coordinate the fight against racism, which directed him to legal aid for protection against defamation lawsuits.
After examining the case and its circumstances, it was decided with legal assistance that in addition to grounds for protection under the Prohibition of Defamation Law, there is also legal grounds for filing counterclaims for the conduct of the chain and branch manager, which constitutes discrimination under the Prohibition of Products, Services and Public Places.
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Yesterday, after a lawsuit that lasted more than three years, Judge Keren Miller's ruling was rejected, dismissing the lawsuits filed against her source, stating that the lawsuits filed have the characteristics of a silence lawsuit.
On the other hand, the judge accepted the counterclaims filed by him and ruled that the chain and the branch manager would pay him NIS 75,000 in compensation as well as attorney's fees and NIS 25,000 in legal fees.
In the ruling, the judge noted that "silence lawsuits are defamation lawsuits filed by owners. Power or wealth in order to silence criticism or a public struggle that harms them.
It seems that there are indeed certain aspects that indicate that one of the motives of the lawsuits filed is silence and deterrence, both of Yuval and of anyone who would like to express public criticism in the future against Victory.
"Yuval's testimony was found to be credible as a whole, while it is a consistent, moderate and careful testimony."
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