Israeli Police Plant Gun in Palestinian's Home for TV Docudrama
'On Kan TV's 'Jerusalem District,' police 'uncover' an M-16 rifle in Samer Sleiman's cellar. But Sleiman was never questioned, and original police documents shed more doubt on the episode's account
In the course of a TV series on the Jerusalem police force, police planted a weapon in the house of an East Jerusalem Palestinian resident and then documented its discovery.
Samer Sleiman’s house in the village of Isawiyah was searched in November 2018, after which he was handed a document stating that nothing was found there. However, a few months later, Sleiman’s neighbors identified the house in an episode of a nine-part docudrama called Jerusalem District, aired on Kan TV. The episode records a search for weapons, in the course of which a cellar is discovered, described by one of the series’ main characters as “a tunnel which would do credit to the ones found in Gaza.”
In this cellar, M-16 rifles are found. The policemen in the documentary are overjoyed at finding these guns, leaving the village satisfied with their work. However, Sleiman was never arrested or questioned about weapons ostensibly found in his possession. He is now worried that his neighbors will think he’s a criminal or a collaborator with the police or the security services.'
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