Meah Shearim, Israel – Three ultra-Orthodox Jews allegedly have confessed to beating and stabbing a man in Jerusalem because he was Arab one year ago, and then fled the scene, Israeli authorities said.
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The suspects, two of whom are minors, were brought before the Jerusalem Magistrates’ Court today for a hearing on the remand of their arrest.
Police believe that on December 3, 2008, the teens wearing yarmulkes walked up to an Arab man in Meah Shearim and asked him for the time, in order to ascertain that he was indeed of Arab descent.
When he answered they sprayed pepper spray in his eyes, beat him and stabbed him, and afterwards fled the scene, police suspect.
The victim, 31-year old Hamed Hamed from Shuafat, was taken to the hospital in critical condition, where he died of his wounds. Police immediately announced that the stabbing had been nationalistically motivated and established a special team to investigate.
A day later two teens were arrested and released following questioning. The three youths currently in custody were arrested three weeks ago and the court cleared their case for publication Tuesday, when police demanded the third remand of their arrest.
Officers claim the three suspects, a 22-year-old and two 17-years-olds, have admitted to the charges against them. They are scheduled to be indicted in the coming days.
the israeli policed are so rediculous. while maybe the chareidim should not have done what they did, I’ll leave it upto your imagination to guess what would happen if this happend the reverse in an arab villiage- THEY WOULD CELEBRATE. WE SHOULD DO THE SAME
So now Charedim should kidnap an Arab and demand the release of these three before he would be released.
I hope these murderers sit in jail for the rest of their very, very long lives.
They do more harm to Jews and Yiddishkeit than Hitler or 5 million Arabs ever could.
How sad – on this site even murderers are defended -only microscopic bugs and shabbos elevators and mixed buses need concern us.
murder is murder
for others what do want different laws who you kill?
shame on you, you are acted like the lower forms of humanity
Sorry, but this whole story DOES NOT sound right.
I’m not sure what VIN’s definition of Ultra- orthodox is. These guys were not the normal yishiva buchor or yerushalmie. At most they were once ultra orthodox.
maybee the 3 murderers should be includet in the prison swap with chamas. let them be released to chamas who will teach them how to behave.
May they live to 120. In a jail.
There’s 2 sides to every story. Were the boys acting in self-defense?
We don’t have enough info to jump to conclusions, and of course this is just what the world loves to hear.