Nova Festival Looters Sentenced for Stealing Equipment of Slain Sound Engineer
Translated & summarized from Channel 9 by baba
Ram Shahin was sentenced to seven years in prison for stealing sound equipment from the Nova festival site after the October 7 attacks. His accomplice, Daniel Chason, received 40 months. The stolen gear belonged to Matan Mordechai Lior, a sound engineer who saved 100 people before being killed and was posthumously honored. The court condemned the looting as a cynical exploitation of the tragedy for profit. The total value of the stolen equipment exceeded one million shekels.
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- Ram Shahin received a seven-year prison sentence for looting Nova festival equipment after the October 7 attacks.
- Daniel Chason, an accomplice, was sentenced to 40 months in prison and fined.
- The stolen sound equipment belonged to Matan Mordechai Lior, a sound engineer killed during the massacre.
- The court called the looting a cynical exploitation of the tragedy for profit.
- The total value of the stolen equipment exceeded one million shekels.
- A third defendant, San Lucien Tevel, was also found guilty and awaits sentencing.
A Beer Sheva court has sentenced Ram Shahin to seven years in prison for looting musical equipment from the site of the Nova music festival just two days after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack. His accomplice, Daniel Chason, received a 40-month sentence. The stolen speakers and amplifiers belonged to Matan Mordechai Lior, who was killed during the attack. Lior, the festival's chief sound engineer, had stayed behind to help evacuate people, saving approximately 100 individuals before being killed by Hamas militants. He was posthumously awarded the President's Medal for Civilian Courage.
According to court documents, on the evening of October 9, 2023, Shahin and Chason, residents of the Druze village of Daliyat al-Karmel, along with their accomplice San Lucien Tevel, 35, from Netanya, entered the festival grounds, which were still a closed military zone. They deceived security by claiming the remaining equipment was theirs, obtained permission, and hired a truck driver to haul away the speakers and an electric generator. The group managed to steal two high-value sound systems, totaling over one million shekels.
Police later recovered the stolen equipment and returned it to Lior's family. Presiding Judge Amir Doron described Shahin as the "main engine of the crime," noting his deceitful actions during both the theft and the police investigation. The court characterized the incident as a "cynical, calculated, and manipulative use of the chaos, grief, and helplessness" at the massacre site for profit. In addition to his prison sentence, Shahin was fined 60,000 shekels and ordered to pay 75,000 shekels to Lior's parents and 25,000 shekels to Lior's business partner.
Chason, who attempted to sell the stolen equipment before confessing, received 40 months in prison and a 30,000 shekel fine, along with an order to pay 40,000 shekels to Lior's family and 15,000 shekels to his partner. Tevel, the third defendant, has also been found guilty, with his sentencing to be determined separately. The verdict was delivered exactly three years after the Nova festival massacre, marking a conclusion to one of the most egregious acts of looting following the October 7 tragedy.
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