Attorney Uriel Nizri, representing Prime Minister's wife Sara Netanyahu, responded Thursday to a pre-lawsuit warning letter sent to his client by Eyal Giler, one of the defendants in the Jerusalem dumpster fire case, by demanding financial compensation of his own.
Giler had sent a defamation warning letter following an interview Sara Netanyahu gave to Channel 14, in which she addressed the arson incident outside the Netanyahu family residence in Jerusalem. During the interview, Netanyahu stated: "The police and security forces found tires and barrels placed around the house to set them on fire, with us inside. The people who lit, or ignited the dumpsters — these weren't dumpsters; it was a ring of fire around our house, so that everyone would suffocate and maybe die. And it's not just us; I understood it affected other people. The intention was really to kill."
Giler claimed Netanyahu's remarks constituted defamation, noting that the defendants in the dumpster fire case are charged with lesser offenses than what Mrs. Netanyahu alleged.
According to a report in Maariv, Nizri's response letter on behalf of Sara Netanyahu stated: "My client rejects with contempt and in its entirety all the claims, false accusations and false representations raised in your letter. Your letter is nothing but a desperate, cynical and perverse attempt to turn the victim into the accuser, and to engineer a false consciousness aimed at intimidating my client and preventing her from voicing her justified outcry against the repeated threats to her life and the lives of her family members."
"I hereby clarify and emphasize that no flaw, defect or trace of defamation [was included] in my client's words during the Channel 14 interview. My client's words reflected pure factual truth according to her position and opinion, and the indictment does not negate this."
