Shooting at the "Troy" event hall: 4 injured - including one seriously/police spokeswoman
The battles for control of the city of Ashdod returned to consciousness tonight (between Monday and Tuesday), with the shooting that was carried out at an event hall in the city, during which a policeman was seriously injured. A force from the central unit of the Lakish area in the southern district was called to the scene and began investigating the incident, and it appears that the background is the "battle of the criminal world over Ashdod" - a conflict between the people of the head of the criminal organization Eyal Nagar, the Georgian gang and other criminal organizations. In the southern city, there have been recent struggles for control of the city: grenades being thrown, arson and messages being delivered in violent ways.
In the battles for control of the city, there are several sides: Shalom Domarni's organization and on the other hand the Georgian gang and Eyal Nagar, who was an associate and confidant of the head of the crime organization Bnei Shlomo, who was eliminated in October 2022. After the elimination of Shlomo, a vacuum was created in Ashdod, which Nagar and members of the Georgian gang began to fill. On the other hand, Domerani's organization is also trying to bite the city through "soldiers", some of whom have recently been released from prison and have found their place in the city and are working to operate loan and drug lines.
Those who are in the middle are the brothers Ofir and Amos Levi. According to police sources, they back up the carpenter, with whom they made amends after the assassination of Shlomo, but they still do not enter the mire of the battles against Domrani and his men. A senior police officer told Walla! Because even Shlomo's men in the past, who have since joined Domrani, are trying to gain control over the gambling and loan lines in the city and make it clear that nothing has gone unnoticed by the police in the battles between the organizations.
"The attack plan of the Lachish area in the southern district, which was nicknamed 'deep plowing', put the most influential criminals on the crime map in the area in the spotlight," explained the senior official. "It deals with the displays of force that the criminals try to show each other in a targeted manner. The spray grenades have become more available since the beginning of the war and luckily the incidents did not lead to bodily injuries."
The source also stated that "in accordance with the policy of the southern district commander, Superintendent Amir Cohen, and the attack plan of the Lachish area, led by Sub-Superintendent Roi Waldman, all measures are kosher when it comes to the fight against criminal organizations and the saving of human lives, and all the intelligence and technological resources are invested in this, which are used to mark the police officers and stations The police the sources of income of the organizations in order to dry them up. For example, the drug lines and sand mining led to the arrest of seven suspects from Ashkelon and the surrounding area belonging to Domrani's organization."
Ashdod is considered a city with "potential" for the underworld. From gambling, through drug trafficking to smuggling. "There is a lot of money in Ashdod," explains the senior police official. "Ashkelon is already controlled by Domrani and there is a situation to change the equation. In recent times we have carried out quite a few countermeasures and seized weapons, some of which were supposed to get into the hands of the criminals and eventually harm human lives," emphasized the official who noted that one of the ways to deal with the problem is to keep the criminals away from the city. "This is just one tool among many that we have in our hands to reduce and eradicate the chain of criminal offenses. In the end we will come to an account with everyone."