As noted above, it was Defendant 2 who initiated the conversation with the commander of the Intelligence Unit while asking to tell "the whole truth", said that he knew who the murderer was and asked for protection from the police, apparently after he was pressured by Investigator Benita's statement that he was not telling the whole truth and that he had noticed bruises on his body. From listening to the conversation that took place between him and the commander of the Special Operations Unit, it is clear that after the first interrogation, defendant 2 understood very well what evidence the investigators had, he understood that very soon additional evidence linking him to the incident would be formed, and he decided to save his skin and extricate himself from involvement in the murder, while placing full responsibility for the incident on defendant 1; And it seems that this insight also outlined the versions that he gave later. In this context, it should be noted that Defendant 2 magnified Defendant 1's role in the incident and reduced his part, even more radically than that used by Defendant 1 in his statements; And that, unlike Defendant 1's first confession, which may have stemmed from a soul-searching that he had conducted and a certain remorse, Defendant 2's confession to the Commander of the Intelligence Unit was mainly characterized by manipulation, his ability to lie without batting an eyelid, and his extreme self-concentration, to the point that he finds it difficult to see the severity of his actions and the extent of his involvement in the murder of a person, even according to the false and restrictive version he gave.
It is clear from the recording of the conversation with the commander of the Central Intelligence Unit that all of Defendant 2's efforts were directed to attempts to present himself as a normative person who happened to be involved in the incident (as was also evident in his testimony before us), to remove himself from the file, and especially to bargain with the investigators about the compensation he would receive if he told them what he knew, and an attempt to obtain promises regarding his future. In this context, it should be noted that although at first the defendant asked for two promises to protect his life and the lives of his family and presented himself as someone who was afraid to testify that he was threatened and frightened, later he asked the commander of the Central Intelligence Unit for assurances that nothing would happen to him legally; to help him and get him out of "this shit"; he said openly that he was not afraid to testify because "the matter of testifying about my dick"; and asked whether he would go to jail, whether a murder case would be opened for him, and how it would affect his recruitment and employment in the future (P/11, pp. 13, s. 5-18, p. 15, s. 4 to p. 16, s. 22); when at this stage it is already clear that he is neither afraid nor threatened, And that his entire purpose is to receive an "exit ticket" from the bag in exchange for the things he will give.