Nivi Zagori: State witness: "I'm afraid of him, he wants to kill me"

For the third time, the witness went to the witness stand and recovered the preparations together with the offender Michael Moore for the murder of Tal Corcus. He reiterated how he obtained the cargo pinned down and led to the elimination, as well as the tense relationship with who for years was considered the head of the Great Crime Organization in the South: "He is a dangerous man who put the police at risk."

Nivi Zagori: State witness: "I'm afraid of him, he wants to kill me"

A state witness in the murder case of Deborah Hirsch, Tal Kurkus and Elisha Sabah rose to the witness stand for the third time on Thursday. The witness returned the preparations for the murder of Corcus along with the perpetrator Michael Moore. "We went to Michael to bring the luggage to eliminate Corcus. Michael asked me why I should do it," he said. "He had no luggage and he told me that friends from the north have and then we got it."

The witness told of the concern of who was considered for years as the head of the big crime organization in the South: "He is a dangerous man, euthanized the police when he was in prison drinking carrot juice and they thought he was not a crime. He fucked them brought them three bodies, ". According to him, "Nivi Zagori closed a deal with someone to eliminate Tal Corcus. The condition of the assassin is to bring the oil (Michael Moore) to Thailand to make a red cap." He explained that Zagori urged him not to say about the elimination of Moore, but only that they wanted to "do a job on him."

He described that Zagori used it to interfere with Moore, resulting in tension between the two. However, the witness said he initially did not want to give Moore's name to police. "I kept it," he described. "I wanted to protect him and only in the prosecution's office did I talk about it."

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

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In a previous testimony given in court, the state witness told how the two assassination attempts that preceded the 2017 Sabah murder went awry. The witness, whose identity was banned for publication, revealed in court how he had assisted investigators to find out what they knew about his moves. This after the first part of the testimony said that whoever sent him to harm Sabah is Zagori in 2017, today he elaborated on the chain of events and attempts that preceded his elimination.

"Nivi did not want to return to the country because he thought there was a state witness in the case of Deborah (Hirsch)," the witness told the witness stand. He said that Sabah's murder was preceded by two failed attempts. The first attempt, he claimed, was due to police presence at the scene. "Eric (Itel) went down with a gun from the vehicle and just passed a motorcycle of police by chance," he repeated. "I immediately warned him and he returned to the car." In the second round, the witness said that they had attached an IDF sabotage to Sabah's vehicle. "We arrived at his restaurant in Netanya to see where to place the luggage. Eric got out of the vehicle and placed it under his vehicle."

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The shooting scene in Elisha Sabah in Netanya

The shooting scene on Weizman Street in Netanya April 6, 2017 (Photo: 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, with his right hand being 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.

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