Senior police officer: “We will restore order in Bnei Brak”; City Council member: “Whoever burned the bus

“Since last Thursday, the Israel Police has been dealing with violators of the law and vandalism that threatens the rule of law and public peace,” he said, referring to the violent clashes in recent days. “In Bnei Brak, in Beit Shemesh, in Ashdod, we are fighting on these fronts in order to restore sanity and health in the streets to the residents, those people who want to live freely without fear of contracting the virus. We see this as a struggle for law enforcement, the principles of freedom and democracy in Israel.”

“Israeli police officers are at the forefront, trying to protect their bodies and prevent the spread of the virus,” he continued, “there are sections of the population, a handful have to say, and I do not want to tag – there are those who call them ‘boys’ but in fact they are criminals “You are all to blame except us.” Those sections of the population who do not see eye to eye with the situation as I describe it. ”

– How do you deal with it? We already see far more than a handful of boys in many localities that really threaten the population, even from where they come.
“We are stepping up our forces where necessary, we have moved very large orders of magnitude of policemen to those cities where there are widespread disturbances. I certainly see here some kind of helplessness of religious leadership, faith-educational leadership that fails to take over, and sometimes can even be said to be irresponsibly successful. “Back up and refuel attempts to harm the rule of law.”

Sen. Sagiv stressed: “We in the police will do everything to restore order to the streets, to restore order where necessary. We will not allow harm to public property, we will not allow harm to police officers. “In the last three days, 20 policemen came to the hospitals with injuries of various degrees, including yesterday in Bnei Brak when a policeman was hit by a stone thrown at his head.”

A senior police official added: “We are seeing public property on fire, damage to vital infrastructure such as public transport, railways, including firing fireworks at police officers,” Sen. Sagiv added, “all of which will not deter us from enforcing the law unequivocally. Where a strong hand and an outstretched arm are needed – we will be there. We are not afraid of our public image, we will get to enforce where necessary. “

According to Sen. Sagiv, the same leadership harms the local public first and foremost, “a normative public that wants a quality of life and cares about its health.”

– How many such institutions were opened yesterday and today?
“We are talking about a few institutions. Again, I do not want to label the population, the law-abiding public is broad and it is clear to us that people want to receive police and quality of life services. In the last day we have visited more than 60 Torah and religious institutions. “We arrived and found six open institutions. The same directors of institutions were fined.”

He said, “What should worry us most today is the same violence directed at the Israeli police. I unequivocally say that the same violence directed at the police will in the future also be directed at the law-abiding public, it will also be directed at the media and local leadership. “If they manage to take control of the angry mob before the police have to do it. When we have to intervene, unfortunately innocent people are also injured along the way.”

– We hear MK Gafni calling on the police to “stop the terrible things they are doing to the residents of B.B. for no injustice on their part,” as they put it. What do you think of these statements?
“This headline of ‘Everyone is guilty except us’ indicates that the religious, educational leadership, the same leadership that speaks of the way of the land, has lost its bridle and has not been able to take over those outlaws. The local leadership needs to do a home check quickly. They have a public duty, a moral duty. “Stop the deterioration of the situation.”

Sen. Sagiv called for cooperation with ultra-Orthodox public leaders, mayors and relevant opinion leaders: “Everything will be done to bring order back to the streets, but it must happen together. Yes, there is room to talk to do so.”

– Do you feel that you are inciting against the police?
“We see images that should concern every law-abiding person in the State of Israel. Police officers should not be victims and the police should not be a victim of street violence. We will respond harshly and rigidly to those minorities who endanger the rule of law, those who want to cause anarchy in the streets. “Enforce and we have no choice but to use force, but against these harsh images of damage to public property it is impossible to stand, it is impossible to move on to the agenda.”

While crews are still dealing with a bus that caught fire yesterday in an ultra-Orthodox demonstration against Bnei Brak police enforcement, council member and city health portfolio attorney Adv. Moshe Morgenstern condemned the acts of violence. “Unequivocally we condemn all violence among our public, condemn any situation where the law Not saved. “Whoever burned the bus yesterday – will sit in jail,” he said.

He also claimed that the vast majority of the city’s residents are law-abiding: “Quiet, peaceful, pious and Torah-learning people. Unfortunately, a small and marginal group is committing acts of vandalism that we did not know existed for about a hundred years.

Morgenstern said he contacted police representatives “in real time” and said “I bring them to you,” noting that they were indeed extradited by their community.

“We do not need what was here, the hallucinatory sights of hundreds of policemen entering here as if it were Gaza or Nablus. We knew how to handle it properly.”

– What do you actually do? Beyond trying to reassure people.
“We do a lot. Yesterday Rabbi Kanievsky called for not participating in demonstrations, saying that this is not the way of Bnei Torah. As public representatives we are in direct contact with police chiefs, with community leaders, we operate the business. We should not light fires but start acting wisely, do not be Right, be smart, not just on the road, but in the city.

“We try to call our public from every possible stage,” he added, “both in the media and through direct inquiries. We call on people and demand that they contact young men, yeshiva heads, school principals and the like, and also call to stay in homes, with how crowded and difficult it is with “The closure. Beyond that, the mayor is in direct contact with the police chiefs. We need to act on a point-by-point basis and use tweezers to catch the rioters and treat them with all our might.

Meanwhile, the detention of four Viznice followers, the suspects who attacked police officers on Thursday evening in Bnei Brak and then destroyed a police car, was extended by three days. This was decided this morning in the Magistrate’s Court in Tel Aviv.