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Photo: Gil Yohanan, Itamar Ben-Gvir
Itamar Ben-Gvir and the gas station employee
Photo: Gil Yohanan, Itamar Ben-Gvir

Right-wing activist is restituted for being called a 'Nazi'

Deputy chief justice of Jerusalem District Court rules that right-wing activist Itamar Ben-Gvir will be restituted for being called a 'Nazi' by an Arab convenience store employee; the verdict sends a message 'no one can belittle the Holocaust,' stated Ben-Gvir.

Deputy Chief Justice of the Jerusalem District Court Dorit Feinstein ruled on Sunday that attorney Itamar Ben-Gvir—a radical right-wing activist—will receive restitution of NIS 200,000 from an employee of a Paz gas station after he was called a "Nazi" by the employee, who also gave him the Nazi salute.

 

 

The verdict was given after Dalk refused to acknowledge the suit and did not submit a statement of defense.

 

Itamar Ben-Gvir and the gas station employee (Photo: Gil Yohanan, Itamar Ben-Gvir)
Itamar Ben-Gvir and the gas station employee (Photo: Gil Yohanan, Itamar Ben-Gvir)

 

According to the statement of claim submitted by Ben-Gvir against the Paz company and the convenience store in Tel Aviv, he entered the store to buy a can of soda, and was verbally attacked by Dalk who called him "a neo-Nazi who salutes the Führer," while other costumers were in the store.

 

Ben-Gvir—who filmed the incident—said he left the premises ashamed after Dalk gave him the Nazi salute.

 

The Paz company and the gas station's manager claimed in their defense that sole responsibility for the incident laid with the employee himself, who refused to submit a statement of defense and failed to respond both when the statement of claim was delivered by messenger and to subsequent WhatsApp messages.

 

Ben-Gvir asked the court to determine the WhatsApp messages he had sent Dalk to be sufficient notice of the suit, in addition to adding depositions of couriers and copies of text messages he sent the gas station employee.

 

Judge Feinstein decided to rule in favor of the prosecution, ordering Dalk to pay NIS 200,000 not including legal expenses of NIS 10,000.

 

The lawsuit against the Paz company and the station manager is still underway.

 

Ben-Gvir commented on the verdict's outcome, saying: "Every gas station and convenience store employee should know they are supposed to serve clients regardless of their political views."

 

"Just a few days passed since Holocaust Remembrance Day and the fact a person calling a Jew a "Nazi" and even giving the Nazi salute will have to pay for it out of his own pocket sends an important message and emphasizes no one can belittle the Holocaust," he added.

 


פרסום ראשון: 04.16.18, 17:31
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