Severely Beaten by 2 Workers, Tried to Flee, but Found Himself in the Defendant's Bench
A supermarket employee in Jerusalem is now standing trial for assault, while the indictment against him describes how the two other individuals involved beat him
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Fell to the floor, took punches, and tried to flee. These are not claims made on behalf of the defendant, but details appearing in the indictment filed against him by the State. Despite this description, an employee of the "Osher Ad" supermarket in Jerusalem found himself in the defendant's bench, charged with simple assault.
The incident occurred at the branch on Beit HaDfus Street in Jerusalem. Around nine o'clock in the morning, the employee was arranging products on a shelf when an argument developed between him, a department manager, and another employee, which escalated into a physical confrontation.
Two beat him even according to the prosecution's version
The indictment describes how the other employee approached the defendant's face, while the department manager and other bystanders attempted to separate them. The defendant pushed the department manager, and in response, the department manager and the other employee began punching and pushing him. People who were at the scene tried to separate them.
Subsequently, according to the prosecution, the defendant followed the two, grabbed products from the shelves, and threw them at them. The two also armed themselves with products, and a clash developed that included mutual blows and throwing objects. The department manager threw canned food boxes at the defendant.
One cannot ignore the fact that the person standing trial was himself attacked by two people—a fact that the prosecution explicitly includes in the document submitted to the court.
Fell, tried to flee, and continued taking punches
Later in the incident, when they left the area, the defendant fell to the floor. According to the indictment, the department manager and the other employee continued punching his body.
The defendant then tried to flee, but the other employee continued beating him.
The crux of the matter: even after falling, and even as the defendant tried to extract himself from the confrontation, the violence against him did not cease. The person the prosecution seeks to put on trial is described in that very indictment as someone who absorbed blows while on the ground and while attempting to flee.
The person attacked is now required to defend himself in court
The indictment attributes the assault of the other two individuals involved to the employee, but also describes the violence they directed toward him. The document provided for review does not indicate whether indictments were also filed against them, and does not include a judicial ruling in his case.
Thus, a key question arising from the document itself remains: how were the blows the employee sustained—and especially the continued assault after he fell and while trying to flee—weighed in the decision to indict him?
For the employee, the incident did not end with the attempt to escape the beating. Now he is also required to defend himself against a criminal charge, when the description establishing him as a victim of violence appears precisely in the indictment against him.
