After the gun was pulled over the security guards: Ben Gvir was questioned by the police and claimed - "political investigation"

About two months after the unusual incident in the parking lot of the exhibition grounds in Tel Aviv, Ben Gvir was summoned for questioning on suspicion of making a threatening offense.

In the opinion of the Knesset member, the timing of the investigation is not accidental, and he calls his office in Sheikh Jarrah.

"There is a fixed method in Israel," he claimed.

"Keep a case against a politician in a drawer, and try to scare him"

Yaki Adamkar and Uri Sela

17/02/2022

Thursday, 17 February 2022, 20:42 Updated: 21:06

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In the video: MK Ben Gvir pulled out a weapon during an argument with security guards (Yedioth from the field)

MK Itamar Ben Gvir was questioned this evening (Thursday) at the Central Police Fraud Unit on suspicion of making a threatening offense, after pulling a gun on a security guard at the exhibition grounds in December 2021.

MK Ben Gvir claimed that the newspaper was "not accidental" and that it was an investigation. Politically.

"All political sources say that Ben Gvir is a bone in the throat in Shimon the Tzaddik ... and in the State of Israel there is a fixed method," he said.

"Keep a case against a politician in a drawer, and try to scare him."

According to Ben Gvir, the police should have arrested the two security guards at the incident in his place.

"One is a supporter of Hamas, the other is a released security prisoner who threw stones and bottles at IDF soldiers ... but instead they are trying to create some kind of equation where they interrogated them and now I am being summoned for questioning."

Ben Gvir asked Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz and Internal Security Minister Amar Bar-Lev that "I am not afraid of you, I will not let you use the police as a tool for political assault, and I will continue to be with Shimon the Tzaddik and if I have to defend Myself again, I will do it. "

Ben Gvir referred to a confrontation that broke out between him and the police in Sheikh Jarrah, following which he fainted.

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"Not accidental timing."

Ben Gvir pulls out gun on security guard, December 2021 (Photo: Official website, courtesy of Yedioth from the field)

Ben Gvir also referred to the investigation during the right-wing demonstration in Habima Square.

"I asked the police what they want from me, bribery? Fraudulent envelopes? They told me no no Ben Gvir, we are investigating you months later about the incident in the parking lot. Do you remember that the Israeli media made a mockery of the security guards? Terrorists!"

On December 22, security guards at the Tel Aviv Exhibition Center parking lot asked MK Ben Gvir to park his car elsewhere - and then a confrontation broke out between them. Ask the two security guards and MK Ben Gvir.

While the security guard told Ben Gvir that he was being photographed, Ben Gvir claimed that he was the one who felt threatened during the incident.

"The incident could have ended in murder," he said.

"At this point I felt threatened and pulled out my weapon, I aimed it downwards, it calmed them down for a while. I saw in front of me two Arabs who were supposed to secure, with hatred in their eyes who cursed and threatened to hit me and murder me. I expect the police to interrogate the two Safer for the public, "said the Knesset member.

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