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Police to compensate right-wingers' daughters
Police and policeman to pay NIS 30,000 to daughters of Baruch Marzel and Noam Federman, after court finds they were beaten during demonstration against pullout two years ago
The Jerusalem Magistrates Court ordered the police and a Border Guard officer to pay NIS 30,000 in compensation to the daughters of right-wing activists Baruch Marzel and Noam Federman, for hitting them during a protest two years ago.
On July 13 2005, the girls participated in a protest against the disengagement in Jerusalem, during which they sat on the road and blocked it. The three girls were arrested by Border Guard policemen and placed in a police car with two officers.
The court ruled that in the course of the drive to the police station, one of the officers brutally assaulted the girls.
The court found that the officer slapped, hit and cursed the girls, and that his testimony was not credible.
Judge Shimon Feinberg noted that, "There's proof that while they were in the car, the girls chanted, 'A Jew does not expel a Jew,' but this is certainly no reason to beat them. There's no doubt that for the plaintiffs the incident was traumatic.
"We are talking about girls aged 12-16 who suffered violence and humiliation from a Border Guard policeman," he added.
