Chareidie "Gazlan" Arrested After Breaking In To Jerusalem Wig Store, Chopping Up And Spray Painting Wigs

 

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 Jerusalem prosecutors indicted a 43-year-old resident of the capital after he was caught on camera three weeks ago breaking in to a wig store and destroying some 80 wigs, causing an estimated 1 million NIS of damage.

Police had arrested the suspect in the wake of the attack which took place on May 24 and was filmed on surveillance cameras. The suspect smashed the glass entrance of the Dini Wigs store in the Har Chotzvim industrial zone and then proceeded to chop the long wigs one by one, causing irreparable damage.

In a video shared by Kassy Dillon on X, formerly Twitter, shop assistant Ayalla said: “Someone came in overnight. He just came in to destroy and damage the wigs. They don’t know exactly why. But he chopped up wigs and sprayed all over the wigs with graffiti spray.”

Ready to wear wigs from Dini cost between £1,500 and £5,000, but Ayalla said, “It is not only money, it is a destruction of handwork.” The wigs are handmade from real human hair.

Ayalla added, “There is a group of people that don’t want people to wear natural wigs. They want people to cover the hair with fabric and not with hair.”

The suspect was interrogated and an indictment has been issued as well as a request from the court to remand him in custody until the end of legal proceedings.

Police superintendent Lior Ben-Shalom said that “The accused acted out of ideological motives which he believed in, that wigs may not be used by women in the charedi sector, and he perpetrated criminal acts by entering a store and causing substantial damage. Detectives from the Lev Habirah station arrested the suspect and investigators succeeded in building proof of the actions committed, leading to an indictment.

In recent weeks opponents of wigs (which are worn by many charedi women but eschewed by other communities) placed ads on Jerusalem buses with the caption “Custom wigs? Transparent lace wigs? Laugh at someone else, not at Hashem”.

At the beginning of the current war, there were also tens of clips on social media of women who had allegedly “joined the trend” and burned their wigs to “Strengthen their Tzniyus” for the sake of Israel’s security.