A Jewish man who was attacked by an Arab in City of David seven years ago has now filed a NIS 54,000 civil suit against his attacker, an Arab resident of East Jerusalem.

The attacker, in the past, confessed to the charges against him in a plea bargain that did not include compensation for the attacker himself, and now the defendant is also asking the court to receive the amount of money owed to him.

The incident took place in the City of David, where the plaintiff parked his car. When he left, the attacker noticed him and began to shout at him: “The Jews are not allowed to park here” and “get the vehicle out of here.”

The Plaintiff refused to move his vehicle and began to make his way to his place of work in the Old City.

The attacker threatened him: “No problem, leave the car, you will not have a car!”

In response to the explicit threats, the plaintiff returned and photographed the assailant with his phone. As a result, the assailant attacked him, pushed him and hit him in the face, until his glasses broke, and his shirt was torn. The plaintiff was also injured in the face, chest and forehead.

The plaintiff immediately turned to the Jerusalem David police station, filed a complaint against the assailant and handed over all the material he had taken to the police, and was photographed with the injuries and injuries from the incident.

When the plaintiff returned to his car in the parking lot in the City of David, where he used to park every day, he noticed that the windshield was shattered, and a rock lay in the car.

A week later, the plaintiff again noticed the attacker in the parking lot in the City of David and called the police to arrest the assailant for questioning.

Throughout the interrogation, the attacker denied the charges against him, while completely renouncing his actions, despite videos that the police found to be behind the violent attack. The attacker was released on bail.

Two years later he was indicted and after a trial he was convicted in a plea bargain, in which he admitted the facts of the indictment. As part of the deal, he was sentenced to two months in prison and a half-year suspended sentence but was not sentenced to make monetary compensation for the attack.

Since the plaintiff’s claims against the defendant regarding the damage to the vehicle are not included in the indictment and the conviction of the attacker, the victim decided to request compensation for the personal damage caused to him.

According to the plaintiff, the course of events clearly indicates that the defendant is responsible for the damage caused by the vehicle, especially since even before this incident, he parked his vehicle in the place and did no damage to it.

In the monetary compensation, the claim – filed recently by attorney Chaim Bleicher of the Honenu Organization – seeks to cover the financial loss of the vehicle, the shirt and the glasses, as well as damages that are non-monetary.

According to the victim, the incident caused him to be afraid, manifesting itself, among other things, by being constantly “alert” for fear of similar events, and also caused emotional tensions, feelings of nerves and anger, feelings of hurt insult and insecurity.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)