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Arabs from Acre rejoicing over arrest of rioters have been summoned to a "warning call" with police
The police summoned some residents who plan a demonstration against the "unequal ratio" that they claim to claim Arabs in Links in the city during the "Brown Guard" in relation to Jews who accused similar serious offenses.
They said they were told they would remain responsible if attacked.
"Instead of treating those who threaten, we are threatened"
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Yoav Itiel
Friday, 10 September 2021, 11:01
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Police last night (Thursday) summoned "Arab" protesters to the "Acre" station at the Arab Acre station to protest the families of the defendants' families and the lynchings of Jews in the city, during Operation Guardian of the Walls. According to them, in the talks they were asked to immediately cancel the demonstration they intend to hold on Saturday night in the Wolfson neighborhood of the city, calling for the release of detainees "who experienced physical and mental torture in their interrogations" and protesting the "unequal treatment" of Arab detainees charged with serious crimes.
The activists claim that they were told that "settlers" were threatening to reach the place where the demonstration was preparing and attack its participants. Activists were also told that they would be held accountable for any violent action taken against the participants and that they would be prosecuted for it. The Acre police are determined not to allow them to reach the neighborhood in question and set up a protest tent near a synagogue.
Last night, Adalah, through lawyer Nariman Shehadeh Zoabi, addressed the Acre station commander, Lt. Gen. Iyad Faraj, in protest of summoning activists to the warning talks and demanding that they be allowed to exercise their constitutional right to demonstrate and freedom of expression, while maintaining their safety and security.
"The Israel Police is the body in charge of this aspect," the organization notes to the commander of the Acre station.
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Serious charges.
Lynch in Acre in May (Photo: Walla !, official website)
According to Adalah, "the practice of summoning activists to the police station for warning calls ahead of planned protest activities is illegal, and its purpose is to intimidate and deter civilians." The organization calls on the station commander to stop this practice in an attempt to prevent them from exercising their rights. A copy of the letter sent to the Attorney General, Attorney Avi Chai Mandelblitt and police chief, Inspector General Kobi Shabtai.
"This is something that is unacceptable in a democratic country," said Mohammed prism, a resident of Acre, 31, a social activist and member of the detainees. " For four months we have been conducting non-violent demonstrations and the police see it and know it. Suddenly when there are violent threats against us, then instead of dealing with intimidators go to the threatened and intimidate them. This is what the police choose to do. The neighborhood in question is called mixed but 90% of its residents are Arabs. We do not intend to provoke and do not intend to approach any synagogue. Get away from the Torah nucleus and make the protest tent and the demonstration far away. "
The activists in Acre support 31 defendants and their families.
The State Attorney's Office's records show that 22 Arabs living in Acre who are accused of riots are still under arrest.
City resident MK Aida Toma-Suleiman from Hadash has been accompanying the families since their loved ones were arrested. Her party's chairman, MK Ayman Odeh, visited them and promised support "until their release." From their protest was also directed against this attitude.
"Inequal treatment", a call to demonstrate for the accused in the riots (Photo: Walla !,,)
Some of the charges against the detainees are for very serious incidents that took place in the city in May, culminating in the arson of the Effendi Hotel, during which the winner of the Israel Security Award, Avi Har Even, perished.
However, none of the defendants is charged with murder.
For example, in the case of Ahmad Shmuch, a 24-year-old from the Old City, who during five detention extensions during harsh investigations by the Shin Bet and the Crime Unit in the police, is suspected of serious crimes of terrorism and murder on racial grounds, nationalist arson, injury, Conspiracy to commit a crime, assault and sabotage of a gang, interfering with a police officer and assaulting a police officer - offenses for which the maximum penalty is life imprisonment and a double-digit number of additional years of imprisonment.
None of the defendants are charged with murder.
Ignition of the Acre Theater in May (Photo: screenshot, Twitter)
However, yesterday an indictment was filed against him in the Magistrate's Court in Haifa only for relatively minor offenses, of rioting and disturbing a police officer in aggravated circumstances. Attorney Rania Seroji petitioned to release the young man if only for that reason, but Judge Orit Kantor noted in her reference that the offenses themselves and his actions could not be artificially separated from the general occurrence in which the rioters, some masked, blocked roads with trash cans and other objects, throwing stones And Molotov cocktails, fired fireworks and caused damage to property, all while violating order and peace in a way that should intimidate the public. "She extended his detention until a different decision.
On the other hand, in the Haifa District Court, Judge Nitzan Silman granted Adv. Yuval Zemer and Adv. The lynching at the Bernitzky junction in Binyamina, in which a 30-year-old resident of Jisr a-Zarqa, who happened to be at the scene, was almost murdered. According to the indictment, when Levitan and others spotted him, they shouted "Arab Arab," and attacked him together, knocked him to the ground, beat him with their hands and with objects and sticks, kicked him in the legs and stabbed him in the leg and head with a knife, all out of nationalist-ideological motive. Policemen who eventually reached them by means of dispersing demonstrations and saved his life. The indictment states that Levitan was arrested while resisting and while trying to escape from the police, when a knife was found in his pants pocket.
The Israel Police responded: "Among other things, the police believe in public safety and security. Naturally, where there is a fear of violating the law or public order illegally, pre-enforcement prevention activities are preferred. "Any attempt to equate police deterrence efforts, designed to ensure the peace and security of the public with improper motives, is a sin against the truth and essence of the police's role as a law enforcement body.
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