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World Jewish News
Border Policeman gets 8 years for killing Palestinian in 2002
27.04.2009
The Jerusalem District court sentenced a Border Policeman to eight years in jail on Monday for killing a Palestinian in Hebron in late 2002.
Shahar Butbika, the Border Policeman, was convicted of abusing and killing Amran Abu Hamadiyah, 17, with three friends from his company.
One of the group, Dennis al-Hazub, was jailed Monday for five and a half years for his role in the incident, which he filmed. The video was later destroyed, according to testimony.
Amran Abu Hamadiyah was forced into a Border Police jeep at the entrance to his house on Tariq Bin Ziyad Street, a few hundred meters from the Tomb of the Patriarchs, on the evening of December 30, 2002.
The Border Policemen later forced him to jump out of the jeep, which was speeding at 80 kilometers per hour.
Twenty minutes later, Abu Hamadiyah's body was found in the Hebron industrial area.
The other two Border Policemen were Bassam Wahabi and Yanai Lalzeh. Lalzeh, whose video camera was used to film the killing, was earlier sentenced to eight and a half years for manslaughter in a separate trial. Wahabi was sentenced to four and a half years for aiding in the manslaughter.
By Ofra Edelman, Haaretz Correspondent
Источник: Haaretz
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