Tuesday, July 25, 2023

Likud minister demands Attorney General investigate Ehud Barak

Transportation Minister Miri Regev (Likud) has sent a letter to Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, demanding that an investigation be opened against former Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Forum 555, on suspicion of "criminal gathering, civil disobedience, and an attempted coup d'état."

Regev said that her decision to turn to Baharav-Miara is due to a video clip circulating on social media. The clip, filmed three years ago, "shows without any shadow of a doubt that beginning in March 2020, former officials began concocting a plan for a coup d'état and civil disobedience, with detailed and careful planning - and the attempt to implement it is what we are seeing on the ground in recent days."

Regev explained, "In the aforementioned video clip, former Prime Minister Ehud Barak was recorded detailing his plan in a Zoom conversation with a group of protest activists." She added that the plan included "inciting civil disobedience in an intentional fashion, falsely presenting a danger to democracy with funding and investments totaling millions of shekels, leading to the point of no return - a civil war - as he begs them to create clashes with the police, saying, 'The more clashes there are with the police, the more it will grow stronger.'" READ MORE