Outrageous: Police Fabricate Story To Charge Chareidi Teen

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Just three weeks after a Chareidi protester was cleared of all charges thanks to a video showing his innocence, Bechadrei Chareidim reports on another instance in which a Chareidi teen was arrested, charged, hired a lawyer, and fought a lengthy legal battle that cost a large sum of money – and acquitted.

All this, despite him being totally innocent of the false charge, of dragging a burning garbage can during a protest on Kikar Shabbos.

In this case as well, the deciding factor was a video proving the youngster’s innocence, in contrast to the police’s testimony which turned out to be an outrageous lie.

In January of 2017 stormy protests erupted in Yerushalayim and Bet Shemesh, after a group of religious girls were arrested in connection to a complication with an army draft order. During a protest in Kikar Hashabbos a 17-year-old Chareidi boy was arrested and charged with shoving a garbage bin down Rechov Strauss towards the center of the intersection.

The teen was also charged with resisting arrest by the undercover officers who came to arrest him and claimed to have identified themselves to him — charges which were backed up by the testimony of no less than 4 police officers.

The boy’s attorney, Nadav Gedalyahu, responded to the charges, arguing that the boy’s Yeshiva is just a few hundred feet from Kikar Shabbos and the boy had just finished Yeshivah and was heading to the bus on Kikar Shabbos to go home. “He saw people pushing a green garbage on wheels towards Kikar Shabbos”, said Gedalyahu.

The garbage got caught in the metal railing on the side of the street, and then the defendant arrived at the intersection- as can clearly be seen on the video.

As the defendant claimed all along, the video shows someone else pulling the garbage towards the intersection. “The defendant’s friend kicked the garbage from the opposite direction to stop it from rolling down the hill and into the intersection. The defendant then grabbed the garbage and tried to pull it upwards to stop it from continuing its downwards descent.

However, he was not successful because someone else was pulling it down, where it eventually rolled down into the center of Bar Kikar Hashabbos” says the attorney.

A short time later 2 undercover officers arrived and arrested the defendant.

In a hearing held yesterday in a Yerushalayim district court house, attorney Ilana Shila from the prosecution announced that “in light of the video presented by the defendant- we are retracting the indictment”, Since it could not be proven that the defendant committed what has been attributed to him.

Judge Rivkah Freidman-Feldman therefore announced, “I acquit the defendant from the crimes attributed to him in this case.”

This is the second time in just one month that attorney Gedalyahu successfully extracted an innocent person from false police testimonies and accusations.

“The feelings are hard” says Gedalyahu, “again the version of the police is accepted as Torah from Sinai, while the Chareidi defendant’s claims are not even investigated. We are preparing a law suit against the state for all the aggravation the defendant has endured for the false accusations against him.”

{Matzav.com Israel}


7 COMMENTS

  1. Police fabricating stories on chareidim is news? They do it all the time or bring provocateurs to create the scene as they’ve been doing the past few weeks on Fridays.

  2. This happens all the time just in these 2 cases there was video catching the (lawless) police in their LIES. To quote the judge in the other case ” I am kept up at night thinking what would have happened had there not been video of the incident”

  3. B”H there is justice in Israel.

    That speaks well for the system there that a judge ruled for the defendant in this case.

  4. If the boy would of been un bais medrash or not been at the demonstration site he would not get arrested
    You get near tge fire you risk getting burned

  5. This is a very troubling trend. The corrupt Injustice system in Israel has a vendetta against Frum Yidden. The baseless hatred, fueled by their feelings of guilt of not serving HKBH, against Chareidim has reached a boiling point. They will stop at nothing. This is also a very real concern regarding the forced draft of Bnei Torah Yeshiva bachurim. Once they are ripped away from their Gemorah’s, the am chovshi IDF will finish them off r”l.

  6. Are the lying policemen going to be punished? They had an entire conspiracy to obstruct justice. They shouldn’t just loose their jobs, but go to prison, their assets confiscated to repay their victim.

  7. Why are there no chareidi Supreme Court judges but Arabs yes. It was an Arab judge who put the president of israel in jail. Crazy

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