In a testimony given by the Meron Disaster Investigation Commission, Northern District Police Chief Superintendent Shimon Lavi said he had no answer to the question "what caused the disaster", and now - Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai is expected to testify to the committee on Tuesday that the disaster was caused by "engineering failure" ".
After the government committee investigating the terrorists' escape from Gilboa prison sent a warning letter over the weekend to IPS commissioner Major General Katie Perry, Saturn's commissioner will appear before the state commission of inquiry into the Meron disaster, which claimed the lives of 45 civilians.
It should be noted that all the officials at the time of the terrorists' escape and during the Meron disaster remained in their positions to this day.
Mount Meron on the night of the disaster, Photo: David Cohen - Ginny
Saturn's associates claim that "his involvement in the incident in Meron was spotty."
Those close to him also added that the basic difficulty that accompanies the investigation of the disaster is the reluctance of the political echelon for generations to regulate the revelry on the mountain, and that it is a continuing failure, stemming from a desire to hold the event.
Among other things, the commissioner is expected to explain to committee members that the police are complicit in the incident, as it is responsible for enforcing public order. "To say that the police are prepared for the Meron incidents as they are for any other incident. They are not responsible for either the infrastructure on the site or the safety on it, and they do not have knowledge and expertise in engineering fields," he added.
Sources who spoke with the commissioner told "Israel Today" that "from his point of view, the incident is first and foremost an engineering failure, similar to the collapse of the Maccabiah Bridge in 1997, which was clearly also caused by an engineering failure.
"If there were not 100 people on the bridge, but only 30 - probably the bridge would not have collapsed, but the bridge should have accommodated a large number of people, and it collapsed."
Those close to him added that the same failure also occurred in the Versailles disaster, in which 23 people were killed.
"If there were not 400 people dancing on the floor, it probably would not have collapsed. It is clear that both cases were caused by an engineering failure, and so was the Meron disaster," they said.
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