The next day, he was asked to go to the police station in Sderot and realized that it was related to the deceased. On his way to the station, a patrol car stopped next to him, with N., who was also crying and upset, and told him that the police thought the deceased had been murdered; And since he did not know what to say, he told her not to worry, that it would be okay and that the deceased would be found. According to him, during the interrogation he was asked about his actions during the week, and told the story he "closed" with Defendant 2 that he was basically true, although he did not say anything about the deceased; and handed over the drugs to the police because he thought that what was important to them was the drugs and that if he handed them over, "they would get out of the assault matter," because "it was portrayed in such a way that... That's what they're looking for... That it's not a murder case or anything like that, even though technically I know it is" (pp. 357-359, 401-402).
Defendant 1 claimed that at the stage when he went out with Detective Adi Hamami to point out the drugs, and also when they later sat down to smoke together at the station, the detective told him that Defendant 2 had placed all the blame on him, told him in segments what Defendant 2 had said in the interrogation, and told him that if he proved that Defendant 2 was lying and that he had done everything, he would definitely be released. Therefore, he claimed that the false statements he gave to Investigator Shai Lazmi during the interrogation were based on things that Detective Hamami had told him that Defendant 2 had given in his interrogation, and that on his advice he had thrown everything at Defendant 2 and said that he had suddenly decided to murder the deceased. In response to the court's questions and the accuser's counsel, Defendant 1 clarified that the lies he gave under the influence of Detective Hamami were his statements that Defendant 2 planned to kill the deceased; that defendant 2 kicked the deceased while towing; that they beat the deceased with stones; and that he was afraid of defendant 2 because he had threatened him (pp. 360-362, 366-367, 370-371, 375, 398-402).