{"id":37983,"date":"2019-03-29T18:23:31","date_gmt":"2019-03-29T18:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37983"},"modified":"2019-03-29T18:23:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T18:23:31","slug":"turkey-will-honor-deal-to-purchase-s-400s-turkish-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=37983","title":{"rendered":"Turkey will honor deal to purchase S-400s: Turkish FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"51\">\n<p>\nJERUSALEM: A Frenchman formerly employed by his country\u2019s Jerusalem consulate has been convicted of arms dealing after admitting three offenses in a plea bargain, the Israeli justice ministry said Friday.<br \/>Romain Franck, who worked as a driver for the consulate, went on trial a year ago accused of exploiting reduced security checks for diplomats to smuggle 70 pistols and two automatic rifles from the Gaza Strip to the Israeli-occupied West Bank.<br \/>Travelers between the two Palestinian territories pass through Israel and are subject to Israeli security controls.<br \/>\u201cAs part of a plea bargain the defendant admitted and was convicted of three counts of importing and trading in weapons and of fraud,\u201d the ministry said in a written response to an AFP query.<br \/>\u201cSentencing will be given on April 8,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe faces a possible seven-year jail term, the ministry said.<br \/>Franck was arrested in February 2018 and his trial began the following month at the district court in the southern Israeli city of Beersheba.<br \/>Israeli officials have said he acted on his own without the consulate\u2019s knowledge and that diplomatic relations with France were not affected.<br \/>The Shin Bet internal security agency has said he was paid a total of around $5,500 for the guns he smuggled for a network involving several Palestinians.<br \/>At a hearing in November Franck\u2019s lawyer, Kenneth Mann, said that his client\u2019s actions were not those of someone seeking to help Palestinian militants in their battle with Israel.<br \/>\u201cHe was scared, he is young and inexperienced,\u201d Mann told reporters.<br \/>\u201cHe has no ideological or political involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: A Frenchman formerly employed by his country\u2019s Jerusalem consulate has been convicted of arms dealing after admitting three offenses in a plea bargain, the Israeli justice ministry said Friday.Romain Franck, who worked as a driver for the consulate, went on trial a year ago accused of exploiting reduced security checks for diplomats to smuggle&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":37984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}