An intelligence officer in the police wrote an intelligence report against a suspect whom she classified as having right-wing views.
The report was written about a kafir from his mother, who is accused of threatening former ombudsman Avichai Mandelblit. During cross-examination in court, the officer admitted that this had been done in other cases and that she regretted it Judge Alaa Masarwa wondered: "Why do we need to know who the person is, if he has a right-wing or a left-wing opinion?"
In 2020, a report was filed in the District Court in Tel Aviv against Kafir Mamo for threatening the former prosecutor Avihai Mandelblit on the social network "Twitter" when he wrote that "Mandelblit is a traitor and traitors are punished by hanging". He wrote the tweet on Twitter in the background of the publications that Mandelblit rejected the request Netanyahu to receive external funding for his legal defense in the thousands cases.
Avichai Mandelblit.
Accused of threatening the former ombudsman classified according to his political views, photo: Gideon Markowitz
Last week, the intelligence officer Correspondent Danit Guetta, who prepared the intelligence report, testified regarding the suspect's Twitter profile during the investigation phase.
In the intelligence report, she stated that "we can learn from his publications that he is on the right side of the political map" and that he "publishes his own posts and also quotes the publications of others such as Shefi Paz, the Netanyahu family, etc.
The messages are political, sometimes blatant."
In her cross-examination, defense attorney Moshe Serogovich from the Public Defender's Office asked, "Why did you mention the Netanyahu family?" and she replied, "To try to understand who the person is behind the profile" and continued, "I realized that he is on the right side of the political map." At this point, Judge Alaa Masarwa intervened and asked He asked the officer himself, "Why do you need to know who the person is, if he has a right-wing or a left-wing opinion?" and the officer replied, "Today I write reports differently, I was a new officer in the squad and I also wrote down irrelevant things that he likes sports and likes survival. So I thought it was relevant so that they can identify him."
The defense attorney said: "It was important for you to mention the Netanyahu family" and this was the reply "I did not investigate the connection the Netanyahu family has and I have no interest in it."
So the defense attorney asked if she had classified suspects according to political opinions in other cases as well and the officer replied "I don't remember, maybe there were."
The police responded: "The police operate impartially and have never classified, classified or will classify intelligence reports according to political affiliation.
The purpose of the Israel Police is to uncover crimes and discover them."
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