Riots in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, tonight // Photo: Moti Green
According to the facts of the indictment, which was filed through attorney Adi Wallnerman, in the evening of October 4, the defendant commanded a police force, which secured a large-scale demonstration of protesters from the ultra-Orthodox sector in Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods.
At one point, the demonstration became violent and included riots, including burning trash cans, throwing stones at police and shouting insults and insults at them. During the demonstration, near midnight, the defendant started running towards a group of demonstrators who were standing next to him, on Shivtei Yisrael Street in the city, and who allegedly threw stones at the police force. There was also a 12-year-old minor in the group, who stood with the other protesters at the scene, and he began to run away from the defendant, like most of the other protesters.
The indictment states that the defendant grabbed the minor, pushed him hard against a stone wall that is in place and as a result the minor fell to the ground. While the minor would sit on the ground and shout “I did nothing”, without resisting or doing any other action, the defendant slapped him in the face, without any reason or justification.
Shortly afterwards, the defendant noticed a demonstrator who was holding a mobile phone and documented in the photo the transport of the minor by another police officer. The defendant grabbed the demonstrator’s neck, pushed him hard and knocked him to the ground, towards bushes that are in the place.