Charge against police officer: He beat an ultra-Orthodox protester in Rome and wrote in a false report that he was attacked

December 21, 2020   

The Police Investigations Department filed an indictment with the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court this morning (Monday) against Adiel Kelly, a police officer, for offenses of assault causing damage and obstruction of justice.• Suffering from a medical problem? Feeling alone? • You can make money from the situation According to the indictment, filed by Attorney Hadas Klein, on July 11, 2020, at approximately 11:30 p.m., the defendant, in the course of his duties as a police officer, participated, together with other police officers, in a police operation against disturbances by demonstrators from the Haredi sector in Jerusalem. During the demonstration, some of the demonstrators refused to leave the scene, confronted the police officers, and slurs were shouted at the police forces. Near midnight, the defendant passed by the complainant Y. B., who was standing with a group of demonstrators. The complainant shouted at the defendant: "Where is your mask? Put on your mask" - while approaching the defendant, pointing at him with his right hand and bringing his finger closer to the defendant's shoulder. In response, the defendant immediately retraced his steps, turned his body towards the complainant, and slammed the walkie-talkie he was holding in his right hand, with great force, into the complainant's forehead. As a result of the blow, the complainant suffered a head injury and he Suffered from headaches and dizziness. Later in the demonstration, at a time not known precisely to the accuser, the accused arrested the complainant along with other police officers. At the end of the event, the accused wrote a false report of action, in which he stated that during the dispersal of the demonstration, a protester arrived who grabbed his walkie-talkie and tried to snatch it, and as a result, he was forced to hit the protester with the walkie-talkie in the face, in order to prevent the device from being snatched - this despite the fact that the complainant did not at all try to touch the accused's walkie-talkie. Subsequently, and based on the false report written by the accused, the complainant was questioned with a warning at the police station, among other things, on suspicion of having tried to take the accused's walkie-talkie by force during the demonstration.