Brigadier General Noam Tibon
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Youths spraying graffiti against IDF officer indicted
Indictment filed against four teenage girls arrested Thursday under suspicion of spray-painting graffiti against Judea and Samaria Brigade Commander Noam Tibon near his home. Suspects also accused of handing out fliers saying 'Tibon is a monster', trying to flee arrest
Insulting a public servant, rioting in a public place, and obstructing an officer on duty – these were the charges brought against four teenage girls aged 15-17-year-old, caught red-handed on Thursday spraying graffiti against Judea and Samaria Brigade Commander Brigadier General Noam Tibon on a street adjacent to his Tel Aviv home.
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An indictment was filed against the four on Monday at the Tel Aviv Juvenile Court.
One of the girls is also accused of violating a restraining order that was issued against her in the past, following a similar incident.
Recently there have been a number of incidents in which members of the Jewish settlement in Hebron and their supporters arrived at Tibon's home to protest.
In many occasions riots broke out, and demonstrators spray-painted graffiti on walls near his home.
Similar incidents also took places outside Central Command chief, Maj. Gen. Gadi Shamni's home.
According to the indictment that was filed by Advocate Itay Naaman of the Tel Aviv District prosecution, two of the youths gave out fliers calling Tibon a "monster", and revealing his exact address.
In addition, the youths are accused of having created a riot outside Tibon's house, and refusing to identify themselves when asked to do so by police.
The four girls also allegedly arrived at Tibon's neighborhood, armed with cans of spray paint, and wrote "Noam Tibon is evil" on a nearby bus stop and similar graffiti on a fuse box in the area.
When asked by police to identify themselves, the girls fled the scene in separate directions, and after being caught tried to flee again, cursing police officers and still refusing to identify themselves.
As a result, the girls were charged with destruction of property, insulting a public servant, and obstructing a police officer on duty.
In the prosecution's petition to have the suspects remain in custody until legal proceedings are complete, the prosecution argued that these acts were part of a greater phenomenon of threats and assault against top public officials and their families, aimed at terrorizing them and dissuading them from fulfilling their duties.
The prosecution said this phenomenon was "a dangerous attempt on the part of the suspects to undermine the principles of the democratic regime."
