The Supreme Court today (Sunday) accepted the prosecution's position and aggravated the sentence of Lahav Naugker Ohnina, who was convicted of racist violence and incitement
. Of a restaurant owned by a man from the Arab sector, shouted racist chants and uttered violent incitement towards the rioting crowd.During the lynching incident, Ohanina participated in the vandalism of the lynching victim's car, stole belongings from it and after the lynching victim lay on the ground, Ohanina spat at him. , Ohanina was interviewed on Channel 11 here and incited violence and racism live.Ohnina was convicted of offenses of incitement to violence, incitement to racism Riot-motivated riot and intentional sabotage of a racist-motivated vehicle, the district court sentenced him to 12 months in prison.
In an appeal filed with the Supreme Court, the criminal department of the State Attorney's Office argued that the sentence imposed on Ohanina did not match the severity of his actions, because the series of acts he committed for racist-nationalist motives constituted an exceptional criminal mask in its severity.
The prosecution argued that this was not a momentary action but an ongoing conduct that included physical acts alongside acts designed to incite hatred, and incite others to act on their own.
In addition, it was argued that no proper weight was given to the manner in which the defendant drove and inflamed the crowd while using the Israeli flag and humiliating it.
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In Judge Elron's ruling, the Supreme Court accepted the prosecution's position and increased the defendant's sentence to 20 months 'actual imprisonment, instead of the 12 months' imprisonment handed down by the district court.
The judge emphasized in his remarks that the incident in which Ohanina took part is shameful and outrageous, in a sensitive security period, and the punitive message that must be uttered sharply and clearly is that such acts committed on a racial basis are among the most serious and should be condemned - whether victim of the Jewish sector or The victim belongs to the Arab sector, as in our case. "The
appeal in the Supreme Court was handled by Adv. Ofir Tischler of the Criminal Department of the State Attorney's Office.
The district court ruled in the proceedings conducted by attorneys Ofra Kremani, Rotem Neumann Wasserman and Aviv Bar-Or of the Tel Aviv District Attorney's Office (criminal), against the participants in the lynching.
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