Haredi citizens who were celebrating and holding a Yom Kippur meal at a private residence in Jerusalem were surprised when Israel Police officers broke into their home without a court order, due to a complaint about noise emanating from the apartment. In addition, they forcibly prevented those present in the apartment from documenting their actions The police in response: “The officers encountered a continuous lack of cooperation on the part of the perpetrators of the crime” | The ‘Bezelmo’ organization: This is a violation of basic fundamental rights. We will take action against the police in order to bring the police officers involved to justice.
Haredi citizens who celebrated and held a feast last week on the eve of Yom Kippur in a private residence in Jerusalem were surprised when Israel Police officers broke into their home without a court order, due to a complaint about noise emanating from the apartment. In addition, they forcibly prevented those present in the apartment from documenting their actions.
The police officers who broke into the house arrested a number of people present who were staying in the apartment and confiscated the equipment on the spot. “We held a feast on the eve of Yom Kippur” said M. The tenant of the apartment for ‘in ultra-Orthodox rooms’, the police showed up at 2 o’clock in the morning and demanded to enter the apartment, even though before they showed up, the music had already been turned off. We demanded from the police a court order ordering permission to enter a private residence, which they did not have. After 30 minutes, they dislodged the door as if we were terrorists, broke into the apartment, started arresting people, and even tried to forcefully and illegally prevent the members of the house from documenting their actions,” M. repeated the details of the case.
M. Claims damage of tens of thousands of shekels that the police officers left behind following the break-in to the apartment. “The Rav Barih company wants more than 30,000 shekels for the door, without mentioning the additional damage that was estimated at thousands of additional shekels when during the break-in the police officers hit a frame, a wall and one of the floors. This is a huge amount,” says M. in pain
H. One of those present at the event who came to the station to sign a bond to release the detainees said: “I went to sign a bond and release the detainees at the station.” I arrived at the station, warned the police about their actions, and immediately returned the confiscated equipment to the detainees.”
The police, for their part, claim that they arrived at the scene in an attempt to stop the noise, but the perpetrators chose not to open the door. “The police encountered a continuous lack of cooperation on the part of the perpetrators of the crime who did not properly open the door of the apartment in an attempt to stop the noise nuisance to the residents of the place.” “Following this”, the police clarified that “after about an hour, during which the policemen tried to get the door opened, the policemen exercised their authority according to the law and broke down the door of the house, and stopped the commission of the crime.”
The ‘Tselamo’ organization believes that this is a “violation of basic fundamental rights” and that the attempt to prevent the documentation is illegal. According to them, “There is no justification for breaking into a private residence without a warrant and in violation of the law, and that the attempt to prevent the documentation is illegal and indicates that the police officers tried to hide their conduct from the public.
The Israel Police responded: “Following reports received by the police about noise from an apartment at 2:00 a.m. in violation of the law, police officers arrived on the scene and encountered a continuous lack of cooperation on the part of the perpetrators of the crime who did not properly open the door of the apartment in an attempt to stop the crime and the nuisance to the residents of the place. After about an hour, during which they tried The policemen exercised their authority according to the law and broke the door of the house, and stopped the crime. The sound system was confiscated and the organizer of the event was detained for investigation by the police. We will continue to work to enforce crimes that harm the public and the quality of life.”
It should be noted that in their response, the police chose to ignore the case in which there appeared to be an attempt to prevent those present in the apartment from documenting the actions of the police officers.
The Bezalmo organization responded: “This is a violation of basic fundamental rights and violence against citizens in a private home. There is no justification for breaking into a private residence, without a warrant and in violation of the law. The attempt to prevent the documentation is illegal and indicates that the police tried to hide their conduct from the public. We will act against “Q in order to exhaust the law with the police officers involved.”