Today (Wednesday) the suspect in the attempt to harm the protesters as part of last night's protest demonstration against the escalation clause
was brought in for an extension of detention .
Zvi Chen, a 26-year-old resident of Elad, is the suspect of involvement in the incident and his arrest was extended until Sunday.
The police charge Han with the offenses of attempted grievous bodily harm, endangering human life on a transport route and threats.
"It can be said that the offenses attributed to him are serious," said the police representative.
"According to the suspect's past - he has no criminal record but was investigated for a similar offense several years ago."
The lawyer of the suspect in running over a protester: "My client denies, the vehicle stopped in front of the protesters" // Photo: Yaniv Zohar
The police representative also confirmed that there is no testimony of the injured person but of an eyewitness, apparently the victim's details are not available.
The police asked to extend his detention by six days.
"There is a report by a police officer who was there stating that the suspect attacked the protesters and there is testimony.
He got out of the car, shouted at protesters."
A protest against the increase clause in the south, one of the demonstrators claims: "They tried to run me over"
Chen's defense attorney, attorney Ran Avinoam claims: "This is an event that was blown out of proportion, because of political influence and because of media influence.
I ask the court to watch the video shown in the case.
We don't have a complainant, no person was hurt, not a single person has come to this day to give testimony saying that a person hurt him, 100 people were at the event.
This is not enough to establish a real suspicion of a crime."
As part of a series of demonstrations against the government, dozens of students from BS University went out last night to demonstrate outside the campus at Ben Gurion University. During the demonstration, apparently, a driver of a private car deliberately stepped on the sidewalk and endangered the lives of the demonstrators and shouted at them.
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