Doron Ben Dor 17/02/2021 12:11
Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Haifa in the ugly confrontation (Omri Stein)
Hapoel Haifa worked for many hours on a letter of defense that will be submitted to the Dayan Disciplinary Committee of the Football Association tonight (Wednesday) that will decide on the penalties of the defendants in the last derby, who were involved in the brawl. ONE first received a preliminary defense on behalf of the defendants of the Reds – players Gal Erel (who will not appear for the hearing because he was infected with Corona) tried Capiloto, Dor Malul, Eden Ben Best and Alon Turgeman, as well as fitness coach Danny Bibbs.
The defense letter prepared by Adv. Idan Goldenberg stated, among other things: Of the Menachem at the end of the game was a direct continuation of this, in stark contrast to the defendants’ celebrations after the victory in the first derby game of the season in the center of the field (!) Without any provocations. Visual documentation for this is in the hands of the defendants. “
It is also written: “The defendants will claim that this is a home game of Maccabi Haifa which is responsible for ensuring their safety, a responsibility that it (and the referees) failed to meet, in light of the particularly cruel attacks on Gal Erel, in a way that justified, among other things, Turgeman’s involvement. The attacker Assaf Ben Dov. “Not even that, the number of people who went down to the lawn, in itself constitutes another alleged offense for which Maccabi Haifa is responsible, for all that this implies, all of them (in these corona days) – officials or functionaries on behalf of Maccabi Haifa.”
It was further stated: “The defendants will claim that the indictment against them is fundamentally wrong, and in fact – it was (and still is) appropriate to award Hapoel Haifa a technical victory in the game (a technical loss to Maccabi Haifa “Cancel the indictment against the defendants; alternatively – win the defendants; and in any case in addition determine the result of the game as a technical victory to win the verb with a result of 3: 0”.
In conclusion, the written defense states: “The indictment is not detailed enough to allow the defendants to defend themselves properly, while materially violating basic rights and natural rules of justice. Thus, there is no detail in section 5 who participated in the riot; Who are the officials and team members who were not supposed to be on the field (without reference to this in the indictment, including without proper reference to an outburst on the field and the responsibility of defendant Maccabi Haifa, the host of the game A position or position holder in the ranks of Maccabi Haifa (who is observed as specified in section 6; who is the “others” in section 9) “.
