Regarding the manner in which the deceased was assaulted
In his fourth interrogation, Defendant 1 described that after Defendant 2 had taken the time and talked to the deceased in the forest, he suddenly "punched him or punched him in the head and... It was as if [the deceased] had fallen and was hit with a stone, as if from the stone that was on the floor in his head, and his head was opened. I didn't know what to do, I was confused, I saw [Defendant 2] continuing to hit him, and he said to me, 'Hit him, hit him,' and I hit the person. Until I didn't know, I just went crazy. I don't know, like... With everything I want, with stones, with my hand, with everything... In the area of the head and abdomen... And [Defendant 2] grabs me, says to me, 'Calm down, calm down.' I realize that we murdered the man... I see him on the floor and silent (sic) and I'm all ... I was under crazy stress, I was high, things were flying into my head... I started to say what we did, like what did we do? As if why? What we did, what we did, what we did. [Defendant 2] calmed me down and we took him to the car" (P/4, p. 4, paras. 15-38).
At the end of the interrogation, when the interrogator asked how he saw his part in the incident relative to that of defendant 2, whether they were divided equally, did everything together, or if someone did more, he replied that he could not say exactly because he was stoned (ibid., at p. 12).
In the reconstruction (Files 0007 and 0011 B/5B), Defendant 1 led the officers into the forest along a path, a fairly long distance from the parking area, until they stopped at the spot where a white rock was found (with blood-like stains on it and a magazine full of bullets was found at its feet). According to him, instead defendant 2 and the deceased stood facing each other and talked, and he stood behind the deceased; At one point, defendant 2 told the deceased, "Ask Assaf as well" and "the way [the deceased] turned around... [Defendant 2] brought him a blow to the head", striking him with a bare hand, in his opinion, with a fist, and the deceased fell with his head down (Defendant 1 demonstrated a fall with the deceased's face facing the rock). Defendant 1 claimed that he moved backwards in a panic, while Defendant 2 "began to attack him... to hit him with stones all around, to bang him on the head"; he himself panicked, and "I didn't understand, [defendant 2] started telling me, 'Hit him, hit him'... I started hitting him with my hands, things like I found it on the floor, I just hit him, hit him, hit him... At a certain point, [Defendant 2] just moves me away from him." When asked what the deceased did when he was beaten, he replied that he shouted "enough guys, enough enough, help", and when defendant 2 moved him away from the deceased, the deceased no longer spoke, was faint and full of blood and it is not clear if he was still breathing, when a lot of blood came out of his head, nose and face. Afterwards, they stopped, he asked Defendant 2, "What did we do?", and he replied that they had to find a solution; and after they found the glasses that fell on defendant 2 in the incident, they began to walk towards the car, when suddenly defendant 2 said to him, "What are you doing to you, bring it" (P/5C, pp. 10-15).