Herut Delegation in Solidarity Visit With Party Candidate Daniel Pinner in Ma'asiyahu Prison
2006-03-14
A group of immigrant olim comprising Herut's list for Knesset will pay a solidarity visit with Daniel Pinner in Ma'asiyahu prison.

Candidates Yisrael Cohen (#5), Yana Chudriker-Knafo (#4), and Ilya Vaslayev (#11) will lead the Herut delegation on Friday morning, March 17.

Pinner, a 38-year-old immigrant from England, was arrested on June 22 for allegedly firing at and injuring an Arab on the Gush Katif beach. Pinner has maintained that he shot in the air in self-defense when a mob of some 50 Arabs threw rocks at him. Arab witnesses and participants admitted in court that they were throwing rocks.

Pinner, an unmarried teacher and licensed electrician, is a resident of Kfar Tapuach. He was in Gush Katif at the time to volunteer his services in the refurbishing of the Palm Beach Hotel for new families. Four days after the incident, he was arrested at home, with the police first claiming that he had shot an Arab in the chest, and then later in the leg. "We see in Daniel a symbol of the right of Jews to defend themselves," said the Herut Party, in a statement. "Pinner, in essence, is the ultimate sacrificial lamb, paying the price for the ongoing political discrimination against the settlers of Israel."

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