Knife (illustration)
Knife (illustration)Credit: Israel Police

The Nazareth District Court filed this morning (Thursday) indictment against 22-year-old Moti Krispil and his father, 52-year-old Eliyahu Krispil, residents of Migdal Haemek, for murdering their 37-year-old neighbor, Andrei Nepomniaschi, and for obstructing legal proceedings.

The accusation states that three weeks ago, at around 5 p.m, Nepomniaschi woke up to the sound of an ATV and went down to the street.

Nepomniachtchi asked Moti who was riding his ATV to stop the noise because it might wake his baby daughter from her sleep. However, an argument broke out between Nepomniaschi and Moti, after which Nepomniaschi returned to his apartment to calm down.

However, Moti and his father decided to take revenge against Nepomniaschi. Moti equipped himself with a kitchen knife with a 19 cm (7.5 in) blade, and his father equipped himself with gardening shears split into two blades, each blade was about 30 cm (12 in) long, and the two went down to the street.

The father, Eliyahu, called upon Nepomniaschi to come down to the street, and Nepomniaschi met the two, armed with a metal crowbar.

However, when Nepomniaschi saw two equipped with sharp tools, he backed away from them, threw his crowbar away, and shouted to them that he is empty-handed, and that if they want to fight with him they must throw away their knives. Instead, the father and son ran towards the unarmed Nepomniaschi and brutally attacked him, stabbing him in the upper stomach, shoulder, arm and left thigh, and cutting him in the neck and all over his body.

After failed resuscitation attempts performed by emergency personnel that were called to the scene, Nepomniaschi was pronounced dead.

The indictment further alleges that the father and son tried to suppress the evidence, by getting rid of the blood on their weapons and changing their clothes after the incident.

The prosecution wants the court to arrest the two men until the end of the legal proceedings against them.