Six and a half years after the fatal accident in which the late Tzipi and Noam Rimel were killed and Itay and Ephraim Rimel were seriously injured - the driver who caused the accident was sentenced today (Monday).
The court sentenced the driver to six years in prison, while the prosecution requested a sentence of 15 years in prison.
According to a report on Channel 7, the Rimmel family sharply criticized the sentence and the length of the legal process.
""6.5 years after the accident, two years after the verdict and about ten months after the hearing on the arguments for the sentence - the sentence was finally handed down. Although the prosecution requested 15 years in prison, the court settled for only six years.".
Family members said of the decision: "Disgrace. There is no other word. It turns out that a human life is barely worth three years in prison.".
They said the lengthy process added pain to the disaster that befell them. "After 6.5 years of legal torture, during which we tried to restore the ruins that the offending driver left behind, we are ending the legal process with disappointment. The court chose to significantly reduce the sentence of the one who ruined our lives.".
