The Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office today (Thursday) filed an indictment against the city’s district court Adi Mizrahi for the murder of The late Yuri Volkov At the crossing in Holon about a month ago.
According to the indictment, on November 23, the deceased and his partner Yelena walked on one of the main streets in Holon. While they were crossing a crosswalk with a green light, Mizrahi arrived at the scene on a motorcycle at high speed, drove over the crosswalk and stopped after him, even though there was a red light in the direction of his travel. When Yelena noticed that Mizrahi was riding the motorcycle in a way that endangered pedestrians, she took a picture of him with her cell phone and asked to continue on her way, at which point she also said goodbye to the deceased who was heading in a different direction.
Mizrahi, who noticed that he was being photographed by Yelena, followed her and approaching her, blocked her path and demanded in a threatening manner that she delete the photo she had taken. At this point, the deceased noticed what was happening, came to the scene and asked Mizrahi “What happened? What happened?”. The deceased stood between Yelena and Mizrahi, returned and asked him: “What do you want?” and asked him to continue driving.
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In response, Mizrahi pulled out a sharp object from among his clothes and stabbed the deceased in the heart with the intention of killing him. Immediately after, Mizrahi fled the scene riding his motorcycle at high speed. Following the incident, the deceased took several steps, collapsed due to immobility and was rushed to the hospital with resuscitation efforts. About an hour later, the deceased was pronounced dead as a result of shock following a stab wound to the heart. Shortly after Mizrahi left the scene, he worked to destroy the evidence. Among other things, he removed the sharp object With him he committed the murder.
In the request for detention until the end of the proceedings, which was submitted at the same time, Attorney Kahan – Mor and Bar Or stated that “the respondent’s high dangerousness is evident both from the execution of the murder itself, of a person with whom the respondent had no actual physical or verbal confrontation, and from the respondent’s actions immediately after the murder when it began Act calmly to hide evidence.”
“The respondent’s dangerousness is also learned from the fact that he used to hide a sharp object between his clothes, and from his saying to his acquaintance that he was ‘dying to stab someone’, something that also teaches about the respondent’s state of mind.” In addition, it was stated in the arrest request that “the respondent murdered the deceased in the middle of a busy and crowded intersection, casually, without any real reason, and without the deceased having done anything to him, in a manner that expresses severe and serious alienation on the part of the respondent from the value of the sanctity of human life.” The accused was charged with the crimes of murder, according to section 300(a), threats, conspiracy to commit a crime (obstructing legal proceedings), destroying evidence and obstructing legal proceedings.
Attorney Eyal Basraglik, who represents the Volkov family, said: “One part of the process has been completed – the filing of a serious indictment by the prosecution against Adi Mizrahi, but we will not pay, we will not settle for less than a conviction for murder under aggravated circumstances with intent which will lead to life imprisonment without parole for the cruel murderer who murdered the head of the family, Yuri, left children, including a 13-year-old girl, in complete shock and destruction, for no wrong done to them.”