Kidnapping: an indictment against 12 defendants

Lod District Court filed today (Monday) indictments against 12 people, including the head of the crime organization, Charlie Abutbul, and other defendants - including haredim – who were involved in the abduction and confinement of an ultra-Orthodox man in Jerusalem, because they suspected him of stealing a total of 900,000 shekels.

Indictment of the crimes was attributed to the accused by force and threats of extortion, conspiracy and theft and false imprisonment.

According to the indictment: On October22, Rabbi Meir Fadida (one of the defendants YA) filed a complaint in which he argued that the previous day, in the evening when he attended the wedding of his daughter, a sum of money was stolen from his home.
The son of Rabbi Fadida (another defendant YA) suspected that the man from Jerusalem was responsible for the theft, despite the denial. They conspired with the defendants to return the stolen money - using violence, threats and false imprisonment.

The indictment describes that the man was brought in for questioning by the defendants who beat him with a bat and punched him.

The man decided that he should acknowledge it even though he had no involvement in it, in order to stop the beatings. He told the attackers that the money is in his apartment. Some of the defendants drove to the address given by the man - but the money was not found.

The attackers told the man: "We will kill you."

The man was taken to the home of Abutbul in Netanya, where he remained until the end of October.

At one point, he managed to escape from the apartment, and complained to the police.

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