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Serious Crimes Case (Beer Sheva) 63357-03-18 State of Israel – F.M.D. V. Assaf Masoud Suissa - part 47

February 15, 2021
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When they returned to the scene, they took the mobile phone from the deceased's pocket, searched and found the keys, defendant 2 took the gun out of the car and asked him to keep it.  Defendant 2 told him to pour the fuel into the car and on the deceased and he did so, but they were unable to set the car on fire; Defendant 2 found perfume in the car, sprayed it on papers they found, and they managed to light a paper and threw it into the car along with the bottle of perfume, and fled the scene.  According to him, during the escape, the deceased's phone fell to defendant 2, but since "the waves of flames began to rise", he shouted at him to leave it and they fled when the phone remained at the scene (ibid., pp. 6-8).

In the reconstruction (Files 0007 and 0011 B/5B), defendant 1 explained how the deceased was put in the driver's seat of the car, and demonstrated the position of the deceased's body inside the vehicle, with his body bent to the right and his head bent towards the passenger seat.  According to him, Defendant 2 offered to move the vehicle to another place so that it would not remain near the scene of the incident, took off the handbrake and they began to push the vehicle, but the vehicle got stuck in something (Defendant 1 pointed to a concrete sewer structure next to which the remains of a fire could be seen) and they began to walk to a gas station.  It should be noted that he later said that he did not remember whether the car was deteriorated before or after they went to the gas station.  To the interrogator's question, he replied that when they left the car, they did not try to find out what the deceased's condition was, talk to him or ask what was going on with him; He noted that he asked Defendant 2 , "What shall we do?", and he replied that they should burn the car (P/5C, pp. 19-21, 23-24).

Defendant 1 led the policemen along the route he walked with Defendant 2 to the gas station, pointed out where their faces and hands were washed with the blood of the deceased; showed where they hid their coats among the bushes "so that they would not see the stains of blood on us", and explained that they collected the coats on the way back and the next day disposed of them along with the rest of the clothes; pointed to the place where they found the jerrycan they had filled with gasoline; pointed to the Paz gas station,  There, Defendant 2 entered the "Yellow" store and asked about a flashlight.  He also pointed to the Tapuz gas station, where he said that he went to the seller and asked for a flashlight, and when he was told that there was none, he asked to buy a lighter and fuel and paid 10 shekels for the fuel and about a shekel and a half for the lighter; described how he approached defendant 2 who was sitting near a stop sign, took the jerrycan from him and filled it with diesel, and at one point called on defendant 2 to help him hold the jerrycan; And then they went back to the car.  According to him, on the way, defendant 2 tried to talk to him but he had no feelings, "and then he threw a comment that I behaved as if I saw someone dead, as if I had seen a corpse" (ibid., at pp. 22, 24, 28-35).

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