State witness testified first: "Nivi Zagori paranoid, said he has three assassinations"

For years, Zagori was considered the head of the great crime organization in the South, and during his trial, he rose to the witness stand of one of his former soldiers. The witness returned the murder of Tal Corcus, the preparations for the murder of Elisha Sabah and why he decided to sign an agreement with the state. During the hearing, the defendant shouted at the "killer" witness, and he replied: "I murdered for you"

State witness testified first: "Nivi Zagori paranoid, said he has three assassinations"

The state witness in the murder case of Deborah Hirsch, Tal Kurkus and Elisha Sabah testified for the first time in Be'er Sheva District Court on Thursday, in which the offender Yaniv Zagori and other criminals are accused. His identity is prohibited in advertising. The state witness said that whoever sent him to hurt the Sabah is Zagori. "Nibi was paranoid," he said. "He used code words all the time: Michael Moore read oil and murders read livelihoods. He once told me in conversations that I had three livelihoods that needed to be addressed. He meant Tal Corcus, Eliezer Tshuva and Elisha Sabah." During the hearing, Zagori shouted at the witness: "Killer", and the witness answered "I murdered for you".

The witness who returned to know Zagori in prison and the relationship between the two tightened during the post-release period. "There were days when he would get up without a mood and tell me 'people disappoint me'." I have three livelihoods "he has three people he wanted to bring down, hurt them." According to the state witness, he spoke to Zagori several times a day, even when the latter was in Thailand and China. "I loved him, he made me feel like I was his whole world," the witness said.

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"There were days when he got up without a mood and said 'people disappoint me'." Zagori (Photo: Yehuda Lachiani, Maariv)

Yaniv Zagori (Photo: Reproduction, Yehuda Lachiani, Maariv, Walla System! NEWS)

The indictment attributes to the defendants felony murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, conspiracy to commit crime, firearms offenses, disruption of court proceedings and other offenses. For years, Zagori was considered the head of the great crime organization in the South, when his right hand was a corcus. Zagori gave full confidence to Corcus until the latter was arrested and opened his mouth against the "boss" sent in 2009 to seven years in prison following testimony. In 2016, about six months before Corcus was liquidated, while he was in custody for violent offenses against his divorced Deborah Hirsch, the latter was shot dead in the eyes of her children in Beer Sheva. It is suspected that Hirsch was killed for revenge for Zagori's overthrow by Corcus.

In June 2017, on suspicion, Corcus, who was then a state witness, was assassinated by Zagori's revenge for having framed him in the past. A few months later, Sabah was killed, the man who led to the conviction of Adam Ital, Zagori's "hired killer." Following Sabah's testimony, Ital was sent to prison. During the investigation of the present case, a close associate of Zagori was drafted as a state witness and allegedly criminalized the organization's leaders after being present at the killings and knowing about the planning that preceded them.

Murdered by Zagori's instruction. Corcus (Photo: News 13)

Offender Tal Corcus (Photo: News 10, screenshot)

The state witness told of the murder of Corcus: "I contacted someone I knew knew that Corcalus was playing cards with her," he repeated. "Niv asked me to murder Tal Corcus. I planned Tal's murder, I was the dominant man."

On the preparations for Sabah's murder, he said that "Zagori wanted to open a Malawi business in Ashkelon, when he understood the cost, he got off it." He then told me that there was someone who wanted to start a Malawi business in the middle of the country and that I would help him. He gave me Eric Itel's phone, and then I made an appointment with Eric and he told me that it was Niv's intention that Sabah should be taken down. "

The state witness told of his concern about signing the agreement with the police. "I was afraid to cooperate with them because I did not trust them. Until a state was murdered and another woman of state witness was murdered. Give them up, I was afraid that they would use what I would say to them." He said, "Initially, the commander in chief, who saw me in a case related to the affair, told me that there was a prepared indictment against the murder of Tal Corcus. I let the commander in command understand that I did know things, and then after extending my arrest, I asked to speak to the commander in chief. I gave him Eric's name. Not wanting to give the name of Nivi Zagori, I was afraid. It doesn't suit me to be at odds with Nibi after all he asked me to do but then I realized I had no choice. I did not want to give Michael the name at first, I gave it only after a period. "

Attorneys at court entrance today (Photo: Yaniv Zohar)

Attorneys at the entrance of Yaniv Zagori's trial, up to state in Nivi Zagori District Court, District Court (Photo: Yaniv Zohar, official website)

Outside the courtroom this morning, Zagori's lawyer accused the state witness of lying. "This is for a state that not only lied to me and I suggest that everyone see the development in its investigation. This state witness did all kinds of things that just couldn't be tolerated and lied to. He said he knew who murdered and then it became clear to the police that he was a poet - how can such a state's witnesses be believed? Israel".

In the previous discussion: Storm in the courtroom

In the previous hearing, Zagori and the other defendants rioted in the courtroom, accusing the judges and the prosecution of "sewing cases" and convicting them without appropriate evidence. After some were taken out of the courtroom and some left behind in protest, the judge made their return by writing an apology letter for their disorder in the hearing. During the hearing, Yaniv Zagori addressed the judge and told him: "You want to convict us and so you let the prosecutor's office treat us like this." Zagori turned to the prosecutor's office and said, "Until your country is a killer, he has blood on his hands." Another defendant shouted at the State Attorney's Office hearing that "they sew bags and everything is addicted."

Following the storm that broke out in the courtroom, Zagori and another defendant were removed from the courtroom and in response, the other defendants protested. Subsequently, Judge Nathan Salzburger was asked to return the defendants to the courtroom. For many minutes he refused, but found a creative solution - that they would write an apology letter for their disruption of the discussion and return to their place.

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Info - Two suspected crime organizations in murder to state Tal Corcus (Photo: -, Walla system! NEWS)

The defendants were handed a sheet and pen, and indeed they wrote the letter and apologized for the disruption to the hearing and went inside. However, the turmoil did not subside; as they entered the courtroom, the judge asked the defendants to apologize for what they said to him and to the prosecutor's office. One of the defendants claimed that he did not retract his remarks and that "the prosecutor's office files them." Zagori himself turned to the judge and told him that "you let them do what they want, you want to convict us at all costs." After another judge sitting in the lineup turned to Zagori and told him that it was not so, Zagori replied that "this is how it looks and if I am wrong then I apologize."

The storm started after the seven defendants' attorneys claimed that the prosecution had given them new details from the state witness's testimony - another material in which he incriminated the defendants with new things he did not say in the testimony he gave before the indictment. The Prosecutor's Office rejected the allegations outright. The panel of judges ruled that the hearing was to testify until the state was adjourned for another week for defense attorneys to study the case. During the hearing, attorneys for the attorneys protested the defense attorneys, claiming that what they were doing was endangering the attorneys.