Delhi Police Approaches MHA Over Embassy Employee Who Put up 'Wanted' Netanyahu Posters
New Delhi: The Delhi Police has notified the Union home ministry that an employee of a European embassy, who is a foreign citizen, put up posters of Israel's prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the words 'Wanted' written on them.
The Wire has learnt that the foreign employee worked at the Belgian embassy.
The Indian Express quoted a senior police officer at the Delhi Police headquarters as having said that the "matter came to light around 7.30 am on May 29 when personnel from the Chankyapuri police station spotted two such posters on electricity poles".
One poster was near the Carmel Convent School in Malcha Marg and another near the American Embassy School, the report said.
Senior police officers asked the cops to remove the posters and scan all CCTV cameras in the area to identify who did this.
The officer quoted by Express says that police scanned footage of "around 50 CCTV cameras".
Having established who it was, Chankyapuri Police visited his residence.
Foreign embassy staffers enjoy a degree of diplomatic immunity from prosecution.
The Delhi Police, the report said, is seeking directions on how to tackle the matter of the posters. “Senior police officers of the New Delhi range were asked by the PHQ to prepare a report for the Ministry of Home Affairs, which is expected to coordinate with the Ministry of External Affairs,” a source is quoted as having told Indian Express.
Globally, pressure has risen on Israel as it shows little sign of abandoning its almost two-year-long escalation of strikes of the Gaza Strip in Palestine. There is also increased consensus on calling Israel's brutality "genocidal." India, an historical ally of the Palestine cause, has been overt in its expressions of support towards Israel. Last year, India abstained from a widely supported United Nations General Assembly resolution calling for an end to Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank within a year. It also abstained from a resolution by the UN Human Rights Council that called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and an arms embargo on Israel.
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