Hazel Crane was a Jew, married to another one & comes from Belfast where crime is murderous. The IRA was big on extortion among other things. Crane was a friend of Winnie Mandela, a criminal in her own right. Crane married Shai Avissar, the Israeli Mafia boss. Then she was murdered, along with two other witnesses giving evidence against Lior Saat, a Jew in the frame for murdering Avissar. He beat the rap once the witnesses were sorted out.
Crane got done for diamond smuggling once - see High society rocked by the shady past of one of its own Amazon will sell you a book about her. Whether it tells you that she is a criminal is another matter - see Hazel Crane: Queen of Diamonds by David Kray The author might well be another Jew.
Israeli Mob Boss On Trial [ 11 December 2003 ]
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An alleged Israeli mobster is facing charges in South Africa that include murder, kidnapping, robbery and intimidation.The trial of Lior Saat next March will proceed following a ruling last week by Johannesburg's High Court that it has the jurisdiction to try him. It is considered one of the highest-profile South African criminal trials in years and represents a potential point of embarrassment for the country's Jews.
The trial has been dominated by a series of dramatic events: the daylight murder of a prominent Johannesburg socialite and key witness, allegations of police involvement in the kidnapping of the accused, a challenge to the jurisdiction of the court and the judge recusing herself. In addition, two other potential witnesses in the case have been slain.
Hazel Crane, a wealthy businesswoman and close friend of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the former wife of ex-President Nelson Mandela, was gunned down last month near her home in an affluent Johannesburg suburb by an unknown assailant. She was killed while driving to court to attend the trial.
Crane, 52, was previously married to Shai Avissar [ Boss of Israeli Mafia In South Africa 11 December 2003 ], reportedly the head of the Israeli mafia in South Africa, who was murdered in 1999, although his body was only discovered in a shallow grave near Pretoria, about 30 miles from Johannesburg, in February 2000.
Saat is accused of murdering Avissar with a baseball bat and a gun, with the assistance of another Israeli mobster. One of the other charges against Saat alleges that he held a pistol to Crane's head in 2000, threatening her life if she testified against him about Avissar.
Until her death, Crane was in court almost every day during the first three weeks of the trial, often accompanied by Madikizela-Mandela. Crane said her life had been threatened on several occasions, and bodyguards often accompanied her to court.
The day after Crane's killing, police said they wanted to question Amir Moila, alias David Milner, in connection with the shooting. At the time Avissar's body was discovered, newspaper reports said Moila was wanted for questioning in regard to that murder.
In the meantime, Saat had entered a special plea: neither guilty nor not guilty. He alleged that the South African courts had no jurisdiction to try him, because he had been arrested illegally.
He claimed that he had been kidnapped in Maputo, Mozambique, which shares a border with South Africa, and then was illegally brought into South Africa in April 2001. There is no extradition treaty between South Africa and Mozambique.
On Dec. 3, Judge Geraldine Borchers accepted the police version of the arrest, ruling that the court had jurisdiction to hear the charges against Saat. Borchers added, however, that she would not preside at the trial. She said her views on Saat's credibility, including a finding that he was capable of dishonesty, could be seen as affecting her impartiality as a judge.
In court proceedings on the legality of Saat's arrest, it emerged that he had fled South Africa in March 2000, shortly after the discovery of Avissar's body, using a false passport under the name Jonathan Cohen. At the time of his arrest in Mozambique, he was using the name Yosef Eden and had another false passport, this time an Israeli one. Police said he was arrested in Mozambique because his visa had expired.
An apparent attempt was made on Saat's life in downtown Johannesburg shortly after his arrest. An unknown gunman opened fire on the police vehicle transporting Saat and several other prisoners to court.
Saat was wounded in his buttocks. The prisoner next to him, facing a minor drug charge, was killed. No arrests have been made in the shooting. Saat now has a special police security escort at all times
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Three murdered witnesses during one trial sound more than just suspicious.
Hazel Crane ex Wiki
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Hazel Crane (1951–2003) was a prominent socialite, businesswoman and posthumous memoirist in South Africa. She was assassinated on 10 November 2003 near her mansion home in the plush Northern Johannesburg suburb of Abbotsford, the same suburb where controversial mining magnate Brett Kebble was murdered later in 2005Born as Hazel Elizabeth Magee in Belfast, Northern Ireland, she emigrated to then Rhodesia as a child and later to South Africa in adult life. In South Africa she was involved in several philanthropic committees and projects, such as the educational sponsorship of poor students.
Crane was shot dead in her car in November 2003, while traveling to the Johannesburg High Court to attend the trial of alleged Israeli mafia member Lior Saat, accused of murdering Crane's estranged husband near Sunninghill, Gauteng in 1999. Crane had been traveling with a female companion, who was shot in the hand, but police determined that the incident was a "direct attack" on Crane's life, who was shot in the head, leg, chest and arm. It later emerged that Crane had been expected to testify in the murder case against Saat and a source close to Crane said that she knew too much, being able to identify and implicate a number of figures in the Saat murder case. She was the third state witness in the Saadt murder trial to be murdered; Julio Bascelli was shot in the head in a deserted garage soon after Avassi's death in 1999 and Carlo Binne was shot dead at the Gecko Lounge, a Johannesburg nightclub, in April 2001.
Prior to her death, Crane was working with a British journalist, David Kray on her memoirs. The biography, Hazel Crane: Testimony from Beyond the Grave received a posthumous release in 2004 and contained several shocking details about the socialite's colourful past. The book details Crane's own secret life of crime. She made her fortune by smuggling diamonds and emeralds, making black market currency deals, owning a striptease joint and selling hard-core pornography. She also tells of how she would tuck emeralds into her beehive hairdo or pack them into her son's nappies for smuggling. Prior to a crime career, she trained as a State Registered Nurse in Rhodesia and in later life was an active businesswoman.
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Belfast Irish, IRA connections? Some things do hang together. Gerry Adams had an international view of terrorism. So did the IRA.Lior Saat
Three witnesses were murdered when he was on trial for murdering Shai Avissar, another Jew. Coincidence? Improbable at best.