Des policiers interrogés sur le passage à tabac d un élu de la Liste arabe unie
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Police officers questioned over beating of Joint List lawmaker
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Joint List MK Ofer Cassif who was allegedly attacked by Israeli police officers during a protest, arrives to file a complaint at the Police Internal Investigations Department, in Jerusalem on April 11, 2021. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
Joint List MK Ofer Cassif on Sunday filed an official complaint against police, after he was beaten by officers on Friday during a protest in East Jerusalem, rejecting the force’s claim that he was to blame for the violence.
Cassif, the only Jewish Knesset member in the predominantly Arab Joint List party, arrived at the Justice Ministry’s Police Internal Investigations Department to lodge the complaint.
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A police officer scuffles with Ofer Cassif, a Jewish member of the predominantly Arab Joint List party, during a demonstration in East Jerusalem on April 9, 2021 (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
Joint List MK Ofer Cassif said Sunday that he would file an official complaint with the police after he was beaten and punched by officers on Friday during a protest in East Jerusalem, rejecting the force’s claim that he was to blame for the violence.
He also said he would ask Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to open his own investigation into the incident.
Cassif, the only Jewish Knesset member in the predominantly Arab Joint List party, was participating in a weekly demonstration in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood against planned evictions when the violence broke out.