Israeli sergeant guilty of manslaughter

tel aviv - Israeli sergeant Elor Azaria (20) Wednesday by a military court in Tel Aviv convicted of manslaughter by a Palestinian assassin in March 2016. This had a knife inserted at an Israeli soldier and was himself wounded in the street. At that time Azaria shot him a bullet in his head which died Palestinian.

The case led to fierce emotions in Israel. Opinions differed from the murder of a defenseless to correctly deal with a terrorist. Also, hundreds of supporters and opponents of Azariah to the courthouse were during the ruling met who went to blows with each other. The military claimed during the case that he was afraid the bomber still wearing a bomb belt.

Sergeant punishment will be determined later. On manslaughter is up to twenty years in prison. The judges came to the judgment, found that Azaria had no reason to shoot dead Palestinian. Shooting down the bomber was captured by a human rights activist with a camera.