Advocate arrived with the Ukrainian flag in violation of procedures, the judge continued the hearing: "Understand the pain"

Lawyer Safdi Fahd arrived at the Magistrate's Court in Nazareth with a ribbon in the colors of the flag wrapped around his arm, even though in courts a performance with symbols is forbidden: "Kyiv is my city."

The judge ordered the security guards to let him in: "It was an exciting moment of understanding and humanity"

Eli Ashkenazi

06/03/2022

Sunday, 06 March 2022, 20:32 Updated: 23:58

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Lawyer Fahd Safdi arrived today (Sunday) at the Magistrate's Court in Nazareth with the Ukrainian flag on his arm.

"Kyiv is my city. That's where I studied and I identify with the attacked people," the lawyer said.

Safdie, who represented a suspect during a hearing on the police request to extend his detention, arrived at the courthouse with the flag wrapped around his arm.

But court security guards told him that according to the binding procedures in the courts, appearances with symbols and slogans were forbidden.

In response, Safdi informed the security guards that the judge had not commented to him on this, and therefore the guards contacted the judge.

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"Suggests to the court that he also wear the flag," Fahd Safdi (Photo: courtesy of the people photographed)

"I said I was proposing to the esteemed court that he also wear the flag, and I went on to say that Kiev is my city. There I studied and I identify with the attacked people. Then Judge Manel Halihal-Diab said to the guard: 'Let him, I can understand the pain' and so I continued. The discussion in the case, "Safdi said.

"It was an exciting moment of understanding and humanity and of a judge who showed sensitivity and humanity to the suffering of others," he added.

Safdi then said in court: "Long live the Ukrainian people, long live the heroic Jewish president."

He says he will continue to attend court hearings in this way and he expects everyone to do the same.

"If I were alive during World War II, I would go with a yellow badge as an identification with the Holocaust of the Jewish people. Today we must identify with the suffering of the Ukrainian people," Safdi said.

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