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Judge rebukes prosecutor for calling Azaria a 'liar'

Zvi Segal reprimands chief prosecutor Weissman during third hearing in Elor Azaria's appeal of his prison sentence for calling the appellant a 'liar'; 'It is out of place. It bothers Other words can be used.’ Weissman responds by accusing Azaria of ‘changing his version five times.’

Chief prosecutor Lt. Col. Nadav Weissman accused IDF Elor Azaria, who was convicted of manslaughter after shooting dead a neutralized Palestinian terrorist, of lying during an appeal hearing on Wednesday.

 

 

Weissman, who is seeking a harsher punishment for Azaria, provoked Judge Zvi Segal who presided over the third hearing, with his verbal attack and was swiftly reprimanded.

 

“It is out of place to say ‘liar.’ It bothers me. More respectful words can be used like unreliable or you are not telling the truth,” Segal said, before Azaria’s father Charlie intervened, saying that “it is offensive.”

 

Elor Azaria (Photo: Motti Kimchi)
Elor Azaria (Photo: Motti Kimchi)

 

Weissman then responded to the judge’s reprimand, saying that “A person who acts in good faith does not lie or have to lie. He doesn’t need to change his version five times.”

 

Addressing Azaria’s attorney Yoram Sheftel, Segal turned once again to the details of the case. “It is necessary to see an active and open act on the part of the attacker (to justify the shooting),” he said.

 

Sheftel responded by stating that “the terrorist moved his hand near the knife and ten minutes before he tried to murder...During the ‘Oslo War,’ (terror attacks following the signing of the Oslo Accords) over one thousand people died as a result of explosive belts.”

 

Lt. Col. Nadav Weissman (Photo: Motti Kimchi)
Lt. Col. Nadav Weissman (Photo: Motti Kimchi)

 

But Segal pressed the attorney on the matter. “You have mentioned the knife. Ok. So why didn’t he shoot his hand? He could have shot his hand,” he said, to which Sheftel responded unequivocally.

 

“No. Shoot in the head. Elor shot him in the head because he was afraid that the explosive was on the body.”

 


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