\u00a0Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court Judge Dr. Shaul Avinor acquitted a young Haredi man, a resident of the Old City of Jerusalem, of the charge of possessing a knife. This was due to a claim of selective enforcement by the police.<\/p>\r\n
Channel 7 reported that the young man, Ron Simhon, was arrested at the Tel Aviv train station by security guards who discovered a knife in his possession. However, Simhon's detention by the security guard at the scene occurred at the same time as the detention of a female soldier, a naval officer, who was in possession of a similar knife.<\/p>\r\n
The officer told police officers who were called to the scene that she had received the knife from American soldiers and that she was using it for secret purposes on a Navy ship. Following these claims, she was released on the spot.<\/p>\r\n
Simhon, on the other hand, was detained, taken to the police station, interrogated, and ultimately indicted.<\/p>\r\n
The fact that he was taken in for questioning, while the officer was immediately released without any procedure, the judge said, constitutes "selective enforcement.".<\/p>\r\n
The judge added that the fact that the case involved a female officer is not sufficient to justify the different treatment between the two cases. "There is no doubt that the case of a female officer, let alone a captain, who serves the public in secret missions on Navy ships, is a matter worthy of sympathy.<\/p>\r\n
\""At the same time, there is a great distance between the justified and necessary sympathy for the role that the officer plays, in the interest of state security, and such a quick pardon for suspicion of committing a serious offense.".<\/p>\r\n
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