Ahmed Bakri, 24, from the village of Ba'ana, is suspected of killing 3 men following a clan conflict in the north • Their bodies were found in the forest • 5 others were arrested on suspicion of involvement in planning
The triple murder in the Tel Dan Reserve was solved
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Eyal Margolin, Ginny
The Northern District Attorney's Office filed an indictment in the Nazareth District Court against Ahmad Bakri (24) from the village of Bana near Carmiel for three murders and three attempted murders of six men near the Tel Dan Reserve.
Deciphering the murder case revealed that the accused shot to death three men amid a clan conflict in the north, during which since 2019 eight members of the families have been murdered.
The incident began on the night of October 31, 2020, when six members of the villages of Ba'ana, Sajur and Jadeida Macher set out in two separate vehicles for illegal hunting in a tangled forest area near the Tel Dan Reserve.
Around one o'clock at night, a call was received at the 100 police hotline where one of the wounded who survived the shooting reported that three of his friends had been shot on the spot.
Police forces worked their way through dirt trails and a wooded and tangled area until they located a vehicle containing three bodies of men in their thirties and forties.
An investigation by the North Squadron revealed that the suspects began planning the murder a month and a half in advance. Surprise the victims in a secluded and remote place. Indeed, on the night of October 31, when the victims were in the depths of the tangled forest, one of the assassin's vehicles appeared in front of them and blocked their way. Along with one of the occupants of the other vehicle driving behind him.
When the emergency and rescue forces arrived at the scene, three men were found: two of them inside one vehicle and the third next to the other vehicle, who apparently died while trying to escape from the scene.
The police investigation revealed that the assassins were driving in a stolen vehicle from the Netanya area, with fake license plates and fled the scene at excessive speed so that their vehicle was caught on a speed trap.
They then set fire to the stolen vehicle, and were picked up by their accomplices in a vehicle rented in Umm al-Fahm and returned to the rental company after escaping from the murder scene.
Police have arrested five suspects involved in the planning and execution of the murder, and are still conducting a manhunt for a sixth suspect.
The two weapons used in the shooting were also seized.
Three of the suspects, residents of the village of Ba'ana, escaped and lived in a hiding place in Kiryat Ata, from which they rarely left, until they were arrested by detectives from the unit of the Northern Sq.
Bakri, against whom an indictment was filed today, is considered the main suspect in the murder in the triangle when the indictment attributes the shooting at him to the vehicles along with another suspect who was also arrested.
Bakri has been arrested several times in the past on suspicion of involvement in previous murder incidents, all committed against the same background of clan conflict.
Against two other people, suspected of selling the technological means of surveillance to the assassins, the prosecution intends to file an indictment for the offense of providing a means of committing an offense.
The conflict that led to the murder began many years ago and later became between the Sulha families.
However, about two years ago, the conflict broke out again, after two 17-year-old boys from both hawkish sides quarreled and led to another killing spree in which eight victims have so far been killed, including the murder in question near Tel Dan.
The police add that so far 17 murder cases have been solved out of the 24 victims of violence in Arab society who were murdered during 2020 in the Northern District, and that this is a decipherment of about 70% of the murders.
