The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office (Criminal) today (Monday) submitted to the district court in the city an indictment against Meir Katsaf, 22 years old, and a minor about 16 years old, residents of Elad and Jerusalem, for their involvement in setting fire to a trash can, causing harm to and harming a resident of the area, a mother of 11 children, who passed on the spot and was seriously injured when the burning bin hit her.
The two are yeshiva students in the city, and they participated in the ultra-Orthodox demonstration there about a month ago.
The indictment attributes to the defendants the commission of crimes of serious injury under aggravating circumstances, arson, endangering roads and obstructing a police officer in the performance of his duties.
The prosecution asked the court to order their detention until the end of the legal proceedings against them.
The woman, Mirel Dzalovski, a 40-year-old resident of the city and mother of 11 children, passed around 10:30 p.m. near a demonstration attended by hundreds of ultra-Orthodox people on Bar Ilan Street in the city.
According to the indictment, the defendants who set the tin on fire dragged it down the street and it hit the woman, crushing her against the wall and she was seriously injured.
Medical teams that arrived at the scene evacuated her in a minor condition to the hospital suffering from injuries to her ribs and stomach, but hours later her condition worsened and she remains hospitalized there to this day.
The riots at the demonstration that ended with the woman's injury (Photo: Israel Police Spokesperson)
The violent demonstration happened about a month ago in Jerusalem, with the participation of hundreds of people who set trash cans on fire, blocked the traffic lanes and threw stones at the police forces and the MGB in the area. The incident took place on Yehezkel Street in the city, where the demonstrators also damaged a police car. The demonstrations were against the background of the arrest of a suspect in setting fire to a cell phone store In the neighborhood as part of the protection of a kosher certificate for cell phone stores.
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