Revenge after being eliminated: 4 young men were charged with blasting a pub in Nahariya

An indictment was filed against four soldiers from the Western Galilee for a pub explosion two months ago, which resulted in a fire where the place was completely burnt. The young men participated in a brawl and were removed from the bar. They later decided to damage the business, operated a remote explosive device and were arrested. Pub owners: "One day we were left with nothing"

Revenge after being eliminated: 4 young men were charged with blasting a pub in Nahariya

Haifa District Court was indicted on Sunday for four young men for blasting the Balfour Pub in Nahariya two months ago. The place was completely destroyed and closed. The four defendants, 26-year-old Arkan Obeid of Sajur, 28-year-old Udi Bissan, 24-year-old Sam Husam Abu Dullah of Yarka and 24-year-old Rabiya Bissan, all are released soldiers.

The Coastal Central Unit has unraveled the affair. At the end of the investigation, without the detainees' cooperation, the investigators believe the background to the incident was revenge for a club brawl in July, in which the four were involved and were subsequently removed from the scene. Police have posted videos documenting those involved in the brawl. The incident happened on the morning of November 18, at which time the charge placed at the entrance to the pub exploded. Videos documented the moment of the blast, when a bystander was not hit by bystanders.

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Balfour pub blasted (Photo: Police spokeswoman)

Indictment - Explosives of Balfour Lighters in Nahariya, District, Haifa (Photo: Israel Police spokeswomen)

According to the indictment, the four vengeful young men were equipped with an improvised but effective explosive device containing an explosive mixture of various chemicals, electrical components, batteries and wireless receivers and operated by a remote control. According to police records, two of them arrived with the luggage in Obeid's kayak vehicle, which left the village of Jat at 2:45 and stopped at 03:06 at the front. Security cameras showed one getting off the vehicle and police say he hit the front of the glass, smashed it and went inside, put down the luggage and left for the vehicle. By 03: 07 the vehicle was already seen leaving the scene and the investigation revealed that by 03:32 it was already back in Jat. Security camera videos along the way documented him driving, and investigation revealed that at least part of the way this vehicle was made when another vehicle's identification plates were mounted on it.

The indictment shows that another vehicle, of the Hyundai type owned by Abu Dulla's brother, had recently arrived in the pub area with Bisan. According to the indictment in this vehicle, the remote was with the charge switch. According to the lawsuit, the two parked the vehicle near the Aroma Cafe, at the corner of Weizman and Gateson avenues, and stayed there for about half an hour between 03: 33-03: 02. The lawsuit alleges that at 3:33 they left the scene, got into the Hyundai vehicle, made a U-turn, and about 65 yards from the pub they pressed the switch and turned on the charger. The police sabotage officer confirmed that from this range the charge could be operated using the sign. As a result of the blast, the pub was completely destroyed.

The place was blown up by an improvised remote-controlled explosive device

Balfour Pub in Nahariya, which blew up in November (Photo: official website)

The police received a report of the explosion from civilians who were called to the hotline 100. The place was empty of people and fortunately no injuries were inflicted, but as a result of the explosion and the blast the place was completely destroyed. Some nearby businesses were also damaged, even on the other side of Gaaton Boulevard.

Police arrived at the scene and investigators at Nahariya Station began collecting findings, including forensic and documentary findings by station detectives, forensic investigators and police terrorists. The county commander eventually placed the inquiry into the Central Unit, which led to the four suspects within a few weeks.

Investigators discovered Wattsp correspondence helped to criminalize those involved, with them also indicating that defendant Bisan surfed the internet the morning after the explosion of relevant searches about the incident, such as "Nahariya" and "an explosion sounded near the Nahariya pub. He was arrested Dec. 9, and two days later his three friends were arrested.

Watts Up Call between the accused on the night of the incident

Watts conversation between defendants at the pub explosion in Nahariya in Novmar (Photo: official website)

The district headquarters say that immediately after the incident, the defendants went underground and that hundreds of investigations were carried out which led to their being exposed as suspects in the blast, located and eventually detained by high-level investigators. Bisan was arrested in his area of ​​residence, and three of his friends were arrested while in Zimmer in one of the settlements in the north. At one time in the Acre Magistrate's Court, when interrogations, they were silent. The defense attorney, Bassel Falah, said, "They deny any involvement whatsoever with them."

At the same time as the indictment, the Haifa District Attorney's Office sought to continue to hold them in custody until legal proceedings against them are completed. Judge Nitzan Silman will hold a hearing on the merits of this request this week, and in the meantime, given the alleged offenses and evidence in the case filed by the prosecutor's office, he has extended the detention until another decision. Police said that "we seriously consider crimes that jeopardize the public's peace and compromise his or her personal safety and work to the fullest extent of the law with those involved."

Balfour Pub on Better Days

Balfour Pub on Better Days (Photo: Official Website)

The place is still closed and there is no renewed opening date on the horizon. The owners, Diana and Tomer Edri, in their 30s, estimated the direct damage to about half a million shekels. "I'm still waiting for money from the insurance," said Edrey Lavala! NEWS, "But the insurance doesn't really cover everything and overall, the overall damage is greater. All the merchandise has gone. The whole structure has gone. In one day I was left not only with nothing but the minus. The place is closed, I stayed there with debts and no income. And bring it back to normal before I can even return it to the landlord. In the meantime, there are rentals and there are debts to vendors that I now have to deploy to pay them for a few years. "

To meet and pay the living expenses Diana receives unemployment benefits and Tomer took a job as an employee as a maintenance man at a nearby kibbutz. "We have a three-month-old baby, we need something to live," he says of the pub that went, "Two years ago we had a girl who got sick. I depended on employees and lived on the line between the pub and Schneider Hospital. We finally recovered a bit from the grief. We finally stabilized. Now we went. The business, too. "

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The owners of the pub that blew up, Tomer and Diana Edri

Pub owners, Diana and Tomer Edri (Photo: official website)

The owner's message is not encouraging. "What you learn from this affair is maybe you don't have to involve police," said Edrey. "We had a very nice crowd, a good population, even a lot of police officers who would come and spend time. There was a group that made trouble, I invited them to the police, Enough deterrence and these guys came to take revenge. "

Edri added that he acted correctly, called police, and that the cops besides collecting evidence did not deter the criminals. "The police did not provide me with protection or a place. So those who do such things after that are harassing the business owner, not the cops. Police now say they did the job, that they caught them, but it wouldn't have happened in the first place if they had a serious deterrent. Worker - I got revenge for inviting police. There may be places in the country that are different. In Nahariya after that, I was left to deal with it and I only had to raise my hands. "