The Ashkelon Magistrate’s Court on Thursday ordered Gilad Kleiner — the son of a former Likud Knesset member — to pay a symbolic 180 shekel ($50) fine for Facebook posts by which he praised and endorsed the 2015 homicide of 16-year-old Shira Banki at Jerusalem’s Gay Pride Parade.
The trial has lasted the higher a part of two years, throughout which Kleiner’s expenses had been steadily decreased amid the protection’s claims that far-right views had been unfairly focused by the state prosecution.
As a part of his sentencing, Kleiner agreed to not repeat his actions.
A day after an anti-gay fanatic Yishai Schlissel stabbed six folks on the July 30, 2015, parade, killing Banki, Kleiner wrote a Facebook put up hailing the act and expressing remorse that Schlissel had not managed to harm extra individuals.
An undated image of Shira Banki at 16 years of age (Courtesy)
Kleiner was then briefly arrested, however was launched inside a day. He was rearrested the next Monday after taking to Facebook once more to rejoice Banki’s dying. The put up about Banki was a violation of the phrases of his earlier launch, prosecutors mentioned.
Kleiner’s indictment, filed a week later within the Ashdod Magistrate’s Court, charged him with incitement to violence, incitement to racism and violating a court-ordered home arrest.
Prosecutors mentioned on the time that Kleiner’s posts “have a real possibility of bringing others to carry out additional violent acts, at his encouragement and inspiration.”
גלעד קליינר שנעצר אחרי שהביע שמחה על מותה של שירה בנקי: ״אני לא אמור להרגיש אמפתיה על מי שמבזה את עיר הקודש״ pic.twitter.com/bt39vkFAGj
— Josh Breiner (@JoshBreiner) August three, 2015
Kleiner’s lawyer, far-right activist Itamar Ben-Gvir, mentioned the arrests by police and prosecutors solely performed into Kleiner’s arms by giving him the eye he sought.
Over the course of the trial, the court docket turned satisfied that regardless of his views, Kleiner was not a hazard to the general public.
Kleiner is the son of former Knesset member Michael Kleiner, a long-time Likud member who later broke off to type the far-right Herut party.