The Justice Ministry unit for investigating police announces that it is closing the investigation into allegations that officers planted a rifle in the house of a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem as part of the filming of a reality TV show, saying no wrongdoing was committed.
In one episode of the reality cop show “Jerusalem District”, police claimed to have discovered an M-16 in the basement of Samer Sleiman, a Palestinian resident of Issawiya, in East Jerusalem. A report by the Haaretz daily later alleged that police had planted the weapon in the house before pretending to “uncover” it during the search.
Samer Sleiman, a resident of the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Issawiya, arrives at the Justice Ministry’s Police Internal Investigations Department in Jerusalem on August 7, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
In a statement, the Police Internal Investigations Department did not deny that police faked the discovery of weapons. But according to PIID chief Keren Bar Menachem, the police had no criminal intent in their actions, nor did they attempt to falsify formal charges against the East Jerusalem resident.
The matter will be transferred to “the relevant authorities” within the police, who could discipline the officers internally.
— Aaron Boxerman
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