disgrace. It appears that Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit will close the case against the police officers who conducted the chase during which the boy Ahuvia Godfather was killed. This was reported today (Sunday) in the evening news here 11. Apparently no indictment will be filed against any of the police officers. Police are awaiting this decision because it is expected to affect the continued ability of police officers to pursue suspects.
In addition to Godfather, four other young men were traveling in the vehicle and it appears that an indictment will be filed against them, or at least against some of them. An option on the table is to file an indictment for the offense of endangering human life in a transportation lane. The decision is expected to be made by the Jerusalem District Attorney’s Office, but it is possible that in the end the boys will be charged with another offense.
Chairman of Religious Zionism MK Bezalel Smutrich said in response to the intention to close the case against the police officers who participated in the pursuit of her beloved godfather: “I was there. From the first moment everything was one big rendering. Closing the case, Cain on the forehead of the Israeli law enforcement system. “
He added, “Instead of the Israeli government engaging in political commissions of inquiry against previous governments, it is appropriate to engage in the real injustices that are taking place against a population that has no voice. Is there not one righteous man in Sodom who will demand justice for his loved ones?”
Attorney Ariel Atari, representing the parents of the late Ahuvia Godak, Avraham and Ayelet Godak, on behalf of the Honno organization, responded, “It is not clear why the attorney general needed to hide, in recent days, behind leaks to media people instead of publicly announcing his decision. For a whole year, the family did not sleep in anticipation of the decision and the counselor did not wait for the decision until the last second. “We intend to continue the public and legal struggle until those responsible for the deaths of their loved ones pay for their actions,” said Adv. Atari.
Advocate Menashe Yado from the Honno organization added, “The publications from the ombudsman after more than a year since the killing of the late Ahuvia Godak are exactly the publications that DIP briefed the journalist Moshe Nussbaum two or three days after the killing. Even before the opinion was submitted, already Before the evidence was collected, even before the DIP investigation, it was leaked to anyone that this case would be closed.
Now after a year or more when it is announced that the case against the police is expected to close we are not surprised. The goal was marked before the interrogation and the position of the ombudsman is as it was marked from the beginning and was expected, all the demonstrations and all the public outrage were not in vain, we knew exactly what the system trend and the leak on the ombudsman trend did not surprise us. We will fight with all the legal means at our disposal to make this shameful decision, “says Yado.