A Border Police officer was charged with destroying a police videotape showing him beating a demonstrator
19/06/2008
Source : Ha’aretz
by Jonathan Lis
A Border Police officer was charged yesterday by the internal Police Investigations Department with destroying a police videotape showing him beating a demonstrator near the West Bank village of Bil’in in March 2006. Yair Nuri, 40, was then a team commander in a Judea and Samaria District Border Police patrol unit. During an unlawful demonstration against the separation fence, he instructed three officers to arrest a man attempting to tear down the fence. They kicked, dragged and injured him, while a fourth officer captured the events with a police video camera. According to the charge sheet, Nuri ordered one of his officers to tape over it inside their police vehicle, so that he could claim it was erased accidentally. Nuri is charged with forgery in aggravated circumstances, destruction of evidence, obstruction of justice and tampering with an investigation.
Originally published in « News in brief », Ha’aretz, 19/06/2008
