"Violent conflict between criminal organizations": The court imposed a restriction order on the head of the criminal organization
The court imposed a 45-day restriction order on Yossi Mussli, under which he will remain under house arrest and be prohibited from using messaging applications. The police claimed there is a violent conflict between criminal organizations. Mussli rejected the claims: "Everything they say I do from Kfar Shalem can be done from anywhere."
The Tel Aviv District Court ordered this morning (Thursday) the issuance of a restriction order against the head of the criminal organization Yossi Mussli for a period of 45 days. Judge Shai Yaniv determined that Mussli will remain under house arrest until the eve of Yom Kippur, and that he will be prohibited from using messaging applications. Until Sunday, he will be able to continue staying in Kfar Shalem, and after that, he will move to his home in Savyon.
The decision was made at the end of the hearing on the police's request to impose a series of restrictions on Mussli as part of the fight against criminal organizations. One of the main disputes between the parties concerned the question of where Mussli would stay during the period of the order. The police requested to distance him from Kfar Shalem, while his defense attorneys requested to allow him to stay there, among other things due to his father, whom he helps care for.
In July, Mussli was investigated on suspicion of offenses of damage, arson, and conspiracy to commit a crime following incidents against Japanika restaurants across the country.
At the beginning of the hearing, attorneys Shahar Hatzroni and Doron Noy, representing Mussli, said that they tried to reach agreements with the police and that the main dispute that remained was around his place of residence. The defense attorneys also criticized the procedure itself. According to them, it is a procedure that imposes significant restrictions without being conducted in the regular criminal track. "This procedure is a restrictive procedure. There is no presumption of innocence and all the criminal law intended to protect rights," they argued. According to them, the law "is intended to echo the failure of the police and encourages the police not to work and not to obtain evidence."
On the other hand, the police presented a different picture to the court. The head of the assessment department at the Tel Aviv Central Unit (YAMAR) claimed that in the background of the request is an active and violent conflict between two criminal organizations. "The headline is that there is a large and violent conflict between two criminal organizations, one is Mussli and the second is the Jarushi organization," he said. According to him, the conflict has been going on for a little over a month, and the danger that the police attribute to Mussli is also related to the place where he is staying.
According to the representative of the Tel Aviv YAMAR, Kfar Shalem is at the center of the activity that the police attribute to the organization, and therefore leaving Mussli in the place will defeat the purpose of the order. "The danger is the center of the organization's criminal activity. If Yossi remains living there, there will be no purpose to the order. The danger is intertwined with the place. 99 percent of the State of Israel is open before him," he said.
The police also claimed that his continued stay in the place could endanger Mussli himself. According to the YAMAR representative, the house has already been used in the past as a target for attack as part of the conflict. "If he stays in the house, there is a potential for danger. The place was used as a target for an attack on Yossi," he said. He also claimed that from the materials presented to the court, an "infrastructure for managing a criminal organization" emerges.
Mussli himself rejected the police's claims. "Four months ago I returned from South Africa and they arrested me. Since then I have been living at my father's," he said during the hearing. "Everything they say I do from Kfar Shalem can be done from anywhere else, and I didn't do anything. I was living abroad and taking care of my father since then."
At the end of the hearing, Judge Shai Yaniv decided and ordered a restriction order for 45 days. Mussli will remain under house arrest until the eve of Yom Kippur, and during this period he will be prohibited from using messaging applications. On the issue of the place of stay, it was determined that he could remain in Kfar Shalem until Sunday, and after that, he would be required to move to his home in Savyon.
