On video: Shabtai at the commission of inquiry into the Miron disaster: "If the plan was dangerous, I would not have approved it"/L.A.M.
Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai was assigned personal responsibility for the Miron disaster - according to the conclusions of the report of the investigation committee for the disaster published today (Wednesday). The committee stated that if it were not for the war, it would have recommended removing the commissioner in view of his responsibility for the disaster, but due to the situation, it leaves the government to determine the correct date for the termination of his position.
In the report, the committee repeatedly rejected Shabtai's claims that he was not responsible for the disaster. "Shabtai was aware that the danger of overcrowding at the party, as it had been going on for years, amounted to a serious and real danger to human life," it was noted. Regarding
Shabtai's claim, that the plans of the operation provided an adequate response to the danger, the committee rejected outright, and wrote: "The plan itself did not provide an adequate response to the danger.
The tool that the police relied on was not pre-planned crowd regulation, but stopping traffic to the mountain after a dangerous crowd has already been identified - this is a reactive approach.
which is activated after a real danger has already been identified, and which relies almost entirely on the ability of commanders in the field to identify a dangerous density and define it as such."
The committee further referred to the fact that Shabtai claimed that, contrary to what was stated in the warning message he received, the mountain could safely accommodate the amount of crowd that was expected, and the amount The audience that was actually present at the time of the disaster. Evidence for this claim was found in a presentation that was held in the planning division of the police and that was presented at the discussion regarding the order of the lightings. the expected audience".
His claims that he is not responsible - were rejected.
Shabtai/Shlomi Gabbai
In response to the report's findings, Commissioner Ya'akov Shabtai stated: "Ran Shabtai supported from the beginning the establishment of a state investigative committee, and he respects the findings of its work. The committee's report does a good job of reflecting the depth and strength of the failure in the long-standing conduct of all state authorities in connection with the regulation of the Miron site. Along with the aforementioned, the report found deficiencies in the work of the police in the preparations for the Miron 2021 event, and the Shabtai National Police, as he has always done in all his roles, takes full responsibility.
RNC Shabtai asked to end his position as Commissioner at the beginning of this year, but he accepted the government's request to continue in the position in view of the war situation.
RN Shabtai will finish his post, after forty years of service in uniform, as soon as the government decides on it."
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