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Officers accused of beating handcuffed detainee

Three Border Guard officers accused of beating handcuffed, blindfolded Palestinian detainee; officers also accused of kicking Palestinian cab driver as he was waiting at checkpoint

Three Border Guard officers have been accused of beating a handcuffed and blindfolded Palestinian detainee.

 

In an indictment filed by Israel Police Internal Affairs unit with the Jerusalem Magistrates Court, the three officers are also accused of kicking a Palestinian cab driver as he was being waiting at a checkpoint.

 

The three are charged with aggravated assault and issuing threats.

 

The indictment states that on February 25, 2005, at approximately 7 p.m., Palestinian cab driver Amad el-Shlalda arrived at a checkpoint in the Abu-Dis, near Jerusalem, with a number of passengers.

 

The driver honked to another driver, at which point he was approached by Border Guard officer Moshe Zuaretz, who punched him in the face. El-Shlalda got out of his car, and then officer Roee Rajaniano kicked him in the leg and punched him in the stomach. The two officers proceeded to threaten the driver, saying that they would “smash his face” if he would ever return to the checkpoint.

 

El-Shlalda suffered from injuries to his face and stomach as a result of the attack.

 

The indictment also stated that on April 22, Palestinian detainee Muntazar Nezan-Ramadan was brought to a Border Guard base handcuffed and blindfolded.

 

Officers Zuaretz and Nikolai Srokin, along with a number of other unidentified Border Guard officers, proceeded to beat the detainee; Srokin struck him in the face, while Zuaretz slapped him.

 

Last September a Border Guard officer was sentenced to four years in prison for assisting in the death of a Palestinian teenager in Hebron.

 

According to the indictment, during the incident, which took place three years ago, four Border Guard officers riding in a jeep picked up a Palestinian teenager; they shoved him out of the moving vehicle, causing the youth’s death.

 


פרסום ראשון: 12.04.05, 19:30
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