The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office filed an indictment with the city's District Court this morning (Monday) against Khaled Kutina, 37, of Manta, the terrorist who ran over the death of the holy Shalom Yochai Sharki and seriously injured Shira Klein, at the French Hill intersection on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
During the trial, Sharky's relatives shouted at the murderer: "Murderer, murderer, burn in the fires of hell, son of death.".
Last week, the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court allowed the publication of details of the investigation into the attack, which indicate that Khaled Kutina, a 37-year-old man from Anata in East Jerusalem, who works as a cleaner at a mosque in Anata and is known as a devout religious man, carried out the attack.
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On Wednesday, about a week and a half ago, at 10:30 p.m., Kotina was driving his car on Route 1 in Jerusalem toward Pisgat Ze'ev. When he reached the National Headquarters intersection heading north, he stopped at a red light. When the light changed, he accelerated his car, quickly swerved from the left lane to the right lane, went onto the sidewalk and hit the two young Jews standing at the bus stop.
Immediately afterwards, the terrorist drove his vehicle in reverse and crashed into a traffic light pole. Jerusalem Police and Border Guard soldiers who arrived at the scene arrested him. The investigation into the attack was conducted by the Special Operations Division of the Jerusalem Police Headquarters in cooperation with the General Security Service.
The father of Shalom Yochai, Rabbi Uri Sharki, told Niv Raskin in an interview that he will not be in court today.
""I have no interest in this, I have no interest in meeting personally with the perpetrator," said Rabbi Sharki. "I think it's not a personal matter at all. The fact that I'm demanding the most severe punishment that can be given now, namely life imprisonment without parole, is not a personal matter that I have with the murderer, but rather it is the demand of every person to whom justice is important.".
The rabbi continued: "I personally do not want to be in court, but I do want justice to be done and for deterrence to be created, because unfortunately such cases are repeated." According to him, in order to create that deterrence, it is right to take the death penalty approach.
