Police ignores Palestinian complaint about settler violence
http://972mag.com/police-ignores-palestinian-complaint-about-settler-violence/67757/
You have to be an especially nasty sort of person to set a vehicle of fire near a house where people are sleeping. At best, you’re acting with total disregard for their fate. At worst, you are making an effort to murder a family as it sleeps. As a rule, this is the sort of person that police forces all over the world show a fiery interest in.
Not the Israeli police though. H. informed the police within an hour of the incident, and drove over to the Ariel police station to register a complaint. The police wasn’t all that interested. It closed the case on the first of July, under the pretext that the crime was committed by an “unknown perpetrator.” It didn’t bother informing Yesh Din until August 14th.
Then, we at Yesh Din started the strange waltz in which we asked the police for the case file in order to wave it over our heads, along with a dead chicken, so as to enact a voodoo ritual which might convince the prosecution to allow us to appeal. (Note to our animal loving readers: no chicken was harmed during the updating of this case, and our appeal request was rejected accordingly.) Finally, when the police allowed us to photocopy the files on October 29th, it was over a month after the deadline for the appeal. To add insult to injury, it turned out that though our representative had come to the police station with the understanding that he could photocopy 17 files, only six files were actually approved for copying, and even that took place after an unusually long delay, caused inter alia because the Ariel police station’s photocopy machine was out of paper.
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