In his cross-examination, to the question of who instructed him not to interrogate Defendant 2 on suspicion of murder, he replied , "What do you mean? There was no indication that he was connected to the murder at the time I interrogated him"; clarified that at the stage he interrogated Defendant 2 he was only suspected of the offenses attributed to him during the interrogation; and rejected the claim that this was a fictitious warning, as part of an interrogation exercise (pp. 71-73, 77). Regarding defendant 2's waiver of his right to consult with an attorney, the interrogator said that he explained his rights to him as was done to any suspect, and that he signed a rights form (p. 77).
According to him, at the end of the interrogation, when he told Defendant 2 that he did not seem to be telling the whole truth, he noticed that this trial had caused Defendant 2 to be afraid, and he set out to update the commander of the Central Intelligence Unit and a retrial of the findings of the investigation, while leaving Defendant 2 under the supervision of Investigator Malichi; Then Investigator Malichi came in and told the commander of the Intelligence Unit that Defendant 2 wanted to tell him something, and asked the Commander of the Intelligence Unit to join him (pp. 74-76).
Investigator Nahum Malichi testified that he took the first statement of defendant 1, who was summoned to testify after an examination of the deceased's mobile phone revealed that his last conversations were with him. During the interrogation, the interrogator Asher Hasson informed him that Defendant 1 was seen on the security cameras of the "Yellow" store, and since Defendant 1 claimed in the interrogation that he was at home on the night of the murder, Investigator Hasson entered the interrogation, warned Defendant 1 on suspicion of murder, explained his rights to him, and Defendant 1 waived the right to counsel. He also noted that Defendant 1 spoke mainly about drug matters and also gave the name of Defendant 2 as someone who was with him at home, and therefore a team was sent to bring Defendant 2 for interrogation (pp. 91-92).