The pizza call, the Israeli version:
A resident of the Golan Heights called the 100 police hotline last Monday morning and announced that she wanted to order a pizza.
The caller recognized the woman in distress, located the location of the call and ordered a mobile to the scene that stopped her partner on suspicion of assaulting and threatening her.
The story begins in the weeks leading up to International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Dozens of people shared a Facebook post featuring the Israeli version of a case from the US in which a woman called the emergency center and pretended to be ordering pizza. In that case, too, the center understood her situation and sent police to her home.
Among other things, the post called on women in distress to call the police and report violence and thus without arousing the suspicion of the spouse.
The method - "order pizza".
The woman, a resident of the Golan, read the same posts and decided to follow the same path when she called the 100 hotline. Following the incident, her partner, a 38-year-old Golan resident, was arrested by the police on suspicion of assaulting his partner.
Currently, the Magistrate's Court in Kiryat Shmona has extended his detention until next Sunday.
"Pizza talk" to the police - the Israeli version // Courtesy of the Israel Police
"I ordered a pizza and it did not arrive"
"Hello," the Golan resident is heard talking to the police station.
"Hello ma'am. You called the police, is everything okay?", The caller replied when there was a thunderous silence in the conversation.
"Hello, did you call the police, is everything okay?", The caller confirmed again.
The woman replied, "Yes, everything is fine. I ordered a pizza and it did not arrive."
The caller replied: "When did you order?".
The woman replied, "Everything is fine."
Phone call, illustration, photo: GettyImages
The caller asked again if everything was fine and was answered in the affirmative.
She then asked for the woman's name but the call was cut off.
Following this, the operator did not hesitate and called a police car to the scene.
Inspector Gur Meir, an investigation officer at the Golan Police, explained: "The complainant announced that she wanted to order a pizza and hung up the phone. Afterwards, she called again and said that the pizza had not yet arrived and hung up the phone. Her relative. "
He added that "we arrived at the apartment and tried to enter, while we called her again but she did not answer. After they did not open the door for us after a while, she opened the door tearfully and agitated. Her partner started attacking the policemen and he was arrested. She testified. And explained that she was in distress and later in the interrogation she complained of violence in several cases. Throughout the testimony she said 'lucky you came otherwise it would have ended badly'.
"We understand that this is something that has been running for some time on Facebook that someone wants to complain about domestic violence and the partner knew then she says she wants to order pizza.
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