The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office (Criminal) today (Thursday) filed an appeal in the city district court on charges of incitement to violence or terrorism of the four minor defendants (at the time of the events), in an incident in the media called "Hate Wedding", after raising miracle, dancing and singing Murder of members of the Dwabsha family in a terrorist incident.
An indictment was filed against the minors in the Magistrate's Court alleging incitement to violence or terrorism.
As part of the affair, another indictment was filed against a group of adults, including the happy groom, whose trial continues to be conducted before another panel in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court.
The indictments relate to a wedding that took place in 2015 in which hundreds of guests attended, some of them acquaintances of the suspects arrested in connection with the terrorist incident against members of the Dwabsha family.
During the wedding, the minors and adults accused of dancing and singing marked the terrorist incident, waving signs pasted with pictures of the Dwabsha family, stabbing the pictures with knives, burning them with Molotov cocktail-like bottles, waving "revenge" signs, and waving and treading weapons.
Justice of the Peace Shimon Leibo acquitted the minors accused of the offenses attributed to them.
Another minor was convicted of intentional property damage, and his case is still pending in court and set aside for sentencing arguments.
The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court in one of the hearings in the case, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
In the appeal now filed, through Adv. Asherat Shoham, the State Attorney's Office asks the District Court to convict the minors and return the case to the Magistrate's Court for sentencing. It also contains serious errors that led to the decision to acquit the minors.
The appeal states, among other things, that "the 'hate wedding' event as it is called ... a sober observation of it easily identifies that it is a unique case in its severity, exceptional in its intensity ... which clearly amounts to an offense of incitement to violence."
It is also written that "the court is asked to overturn the rulings of the Magistrate's Court regarding the claim of protection of justice, ... Enforcement authorities, the police and the State Attorney's Office, act in the examination of expression offenses and in general, carefully and equitably .... and regardless of his political identity or national origin / Religious of the advertiser or subject of the publication. "