An unprecedented achievement for the Jerusalem municipality: The District Court ruled in a precedent-setting ruling that the municipality has the right to confiscate a vehicle that has helped to carry out the offense of hanging pirate ads in Jerusalem. It should be noted that a judgment handed down by the Honorable Judge Abarvanel confirmed the ruling of the Honorable Judge Albo in the Court for Local Affairs.

For decades, posters, posters and signs have been hung around the city in pirate form, on walls, electrical cabinets, trash cans and many places in the public space, which is a severe visual and environmental damage and even harms municipal infrastructure.

For over a year and a half, the Enforcement and Policing Department of the Jerusalem Municipality has been carrying out special and creative enforcement, in cooperation with the municipal prosecution, which includes confiscation of vehicles that assist in the commission of the offense. This is a unique and primary tool in Israel, which greatly helps to increase the alert against criminals.

Until now, not all the courts that have heard similar cases have ruled that confiscation of vehicles can be carried out until the attached case of a serial offender who did not agree to the decision of the Court for Local Affairs to deposit a bank guarantee or a cash deposit in court and appealed this to the District Court.

It is important to emphasize that this is a national precedent that will greatly assist the deterrence and enforcement of the law on the subject, which until now the local authority has dealt with through a fine of only hundreds of shekels.

The enforcement and policing department, together with the municipal prosecution, will continue to carry out the enforcement work in order to eradicate the pirated hanging of posters, posters and signs throughout the city, which constitutes severe visual and environmental damage and even harms municipal infrastructure.

A ruling by the District Court by Justice Eli Abarbanel, which in practice confirmed that the use of a vehicle for hanging ads is a “tool of offense” that can be confiscated in accordance with the Criminal Procedure Ordinance (Arrest and Search).

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)