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JERUSALEM – An Israeli civilian was sentenced to 100 days of community service for taking part in the beating of an Eritrean national whom he had mistaken for the terrorist who had just attacked.
David Moyal blasted Haftom Zarhum, an Eritrean with a bench in Beersheba Central Bus Station after an Israeli soldier was stabbed and killed by an badailant at the station in October 2015. Two other men also beat Zarhum on the head and torso while he was on the ground after being shot by the station's security guard. All had confused Zarhum and the terrorist.
An autopsy determined that Zarhum, who was in Israel as an asylum seeker, had died from the guardian's bullet, but four men beat him or attacked him. 19659002] In addition to community service, Moyal will be on probation for eight months and ordered to pay $ 550 to Zarhum's family. The sentence was handed down on Wednesday at the Beersheba District Court
The attacker of Beersheba Bus Station, an Israeli Bedouin, stabbed a soldier and seized his M-16 rifle, then opened fire.
who was later beaten by a crowd as he lay on the floor. Video footage of the attack shows that Zarhum is disabled and lying in a pool of his own blood by pbaders-by who consider him an badailant.
An autopsy revealed that Zarhum had eight bullet wounds, two of them fatal.
After the conviction, Moyal said "I'm glad everything is behind me, I'm remorseful and I regret what happened," Ynet reports.
Zarhum's parents sue for 3 million shekels, or about $ 780,000 in damages for the murder of October 2015. The trial includes the Israeli police, the security company of the station. bus and the four badailants charged
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