Court aggravates sentence of policeman who killed Palestinian

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The Supreme Court on Tuesday accepted the State's appeal and aggravated the sentence of a former Border Guard officer who was accused of killing a Palestinian youth more than six years ago.

The former policeman, who was initially sentenced to six and a half months in prison by the District Court for throwing a 17-year-old boy out of a moving jeep, will be jailed for eight and a half months.

The officer, Yanai Lalza, escaped last summer before he was scheduled to serve his sentence, and was captured in Eilat more than a week later.

"The abuse of the power of cold and fire arms which the defendant and his friends had as soldiers, in order to carry out a sadistic campaign of revenge against innocent people only due to their Arab descent, cannot but invoke historic periods of regression and remind us of dark anti-Semitic pogroms in Europe directed at innocent Jews as their victims," the judges said in the sentence.

Lalza was convicted of killing the youth and abusing other Palestinians. According to the indictment filed by the four policemen involved in the affair, in the four kidnapped Hebron resident Amran Abu Hamadiya and put him on a jeep.

During the drive they beat the youth and then hurled him out of the jeep, which was travelling in high speed.

Abu Hamadiya was thrown on the road, his head was strongly hit and he died on the spot. Immediately after throwing the youth, Lalza shouted, "He is dead! He is dead!" and the four abandoned the body and continued driving. One of them documented the entire incident with his video camera.

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3695458,00.html

Yeah, coz 8 and a half months in prison for murdering someone is a real deterrent, right? People get more than that here for minor fraud offenses...

[Jefferson23]

1. Disgraceful.