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Former head of the police operations division against the commissioner: opposed the restriction of an audience in Meron
Retired Superintendent Amnon Alkalay testified before the Meron Disaster Inquiry Committee today and claimed that despite senior police recommendations for a capacitor restriction outline for any lighting, Commissioner Saturn outright denied it. "He said 'either the mountain is completely open or completely closed.'
I warned that they would prepare for a multi-casualty event "
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Shlomi Heller
Thursday, 14 October 2021, 10:55 Updated: 11:13
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Live broadcast from the Meron Disaster Investigation Committee
Retired Amnon Alkalay, former head of the police operations division, claimed today (Thursday) in his testimony before the State Commission of Inquiry into the Meron disaster that during the operational meetings ahead of the Meron revelation, Commissioner Kobi Shabtai rejected the outline for restricting the public in Meron. "Through the corona regulations," Alkalay told the committee. "The idea is that at the time of the incident there will be ten thousand people on the mountain.
If we understand that more than ten thousand will come, we need to limit. "
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The scene of the disaster in Meron (Photo: Flash 90, David Cohen)
According to Alkalay, "During the operational discussion leading up to the event, Operations Chief of Staff Morris Chen presented my position, and Southern District Commander Shimon Lavi presented his recommendation of a stadium layout (3,000 people at each lighting. S.H.).
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He said, "I wanted to get them to think further and I said 'I will pass on your directive to the head of the National Security Council'.
I said that the rules of the corona also serve the issue of safety. "
"The commissioner told us, 'It's either black or white.'" Saturn (Photo: Yoav Itiel)
Alkalay revealed in his testimony that his decision to retire from the police was in part following the discussion with the commissioner ahead of the Meron events, “The first time I spoke to him and asked to end was towards the end of February.
There was a chain of events that led to this.
I was asked to remain in office for another year, and I saw that during the entire period I remained the decision-making process was not conducted professionally. "
He added that" what led to my decision was following this discussion but .
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most severe civilian disaster in the history of the country, which took place during the celebrations of the Rashbi celebration on the night of Lag B'Omer, on the night of April 29-30, 45 people and children perished and more than a hundred people were injured. Due to severe overcrowding at one of the crossings in the compound.
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