Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan, whose ministry is responsible for the Israel Police, says “we trust [Police Internal Investigations Department] will complete its investigation swiftly in a professional manner, and will dispel the cloud hanging over the incident.”
He refers to allegations that a police officer, as yet unnamed, broke the knee of prominent Arab Israeli rights activist Jafar Farah when he was detained after a weekend protest in Haifa that turned violent.
Erdan also slams the European Union, which called earlier today for an inquiry into the circumstances behind Farah’s injuries.
The EU should not “get involved in internal Israeli matters,” Erdan says. “Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East, doesn’t need any moral coaxing from a misguided and obsessive entity like the European Union.”
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