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The attacked Hareidi youth; Photo credit: Honenu
Wednesday, December 11, 2024, 13:43 Honenu Attorney Chayim Bleicher wrote a letter to the police demanding that three Arab construction workers, who brutally attacked a Hareidi youth in Jerusalem on Tuesday, be held until the end of legal proceedings against them. The youth was transported to the hospital with skull fractures, cuts to his head, and hemorrhaging. After the attack, the police announced that they had detained three suspects.
In his letter, Attorney Bleicher described the attack: “My client was riding his electric bicycle and signaled to one of the attackers standing in the street to clear the way for his passage. In response, the attacker waved his arms at my client, which caused him to fall off his bicycle towards a tree on the side of the street. At this point, the attacker shoved my client and shouted ‘Yahud, Yahud! [Jew! Jew!],’ in a call for other attackers to come to the site. More construction workers arrived and kicked my client’s bicycle with the intent to break it. My client tried to pull his bicycle away from them, and then one of the attackers hit him over the head with a crowbar, causing him to lose consciousness. While my client was lying unconscious, the attackers kicked his head. One of the attackers lifted a floor tile, intending to crush my client’s head. At the last moment, yeshiva students arrived on the scene and succeeded in repelling the attacker. They also drove other attackers away from my unconscious client.”
Attorney Bleicher underscored the severity of the attack, which could have ended in murder, and demanded that the attackers be prosecuted to the full extent of the law: “This was a terror attack and attempted murder with a terrible outcome despite being carried out spontaneously by terrorists who only a moment before had been construction workers. I demand that the attackers be held in remand until the end of proceedings and that they be indicted for racially motivated and serious charges.”
Attorney Bleicher issued a statement: “That construction workers could spontaneously carry out a vicious attack on a yeshiva student is a warning sign for all of us. We expect decisive treatment by the police and the State Attorney’s office concerning the attackers. They must be remanded until the end of proceedings and prosecuted to the full extent of the law.”