Researcher No. 1, Gil Alon: You see but it's not your friend
Interrogator, Dennis Daniel Mukin: After I stopped and opened the window I saw and voila, it's not my friend
Investigator No. 1, Gil Alon: He's cursing you
Interrogee, Dennis Daniel Mukin: I told him what happened, what was the problem? He curses, shouts, goes out to me in the direction of the Lord.
Investigator No. 1, Gil Alon: Well, why didn't you go?
Interrogee, Dennis Daniel Mukin: In the direction of my car.
Investigator No. 1, Gil Alon: Why didn't you go?
Interrogator, Dennis Daniel Mukin: I got out of the car. He got out of the car, I got out of the car. He's a man, I'm a man."
In this statement of the defendant, in my opinion, the essence of the defendant's state of mind at the beginning of the incident is embodied, in the sense of "he is a man, I am a man," as the defendant said. In this description, the defendant describes, in practice, friction between him and the other driver, the deceased, against the background of their driving on the road, which escalates into a real confrontation. It should be emphasized that even if I were to accept the defendant's version that the deceased attacked the defendant and that the defendant feared for his life, this still does not testify, in part or not, that the defendant believed that the deceased was a terrorist and that he was involved in a terrorist incident.
- Both in the defendant's reconstruction (P/3) and in his second interrogation (P/7), the defendant repeated his description that the deceased "played with him" on the road and attacked him shouting and cursing when he stopped next to him. However, it should be noted that while in his first statement and in the reconstruction the defendant stated that he had asked the deceased what he wanted and what the problem was, in his third interrogation the defendant stated that the deceased shouted at him, "Where are you in a hurry?"
- It should be noted that contrary to the defendant's categorical description that he got out of his car only after the deceased ran towards him with aggressive movements and with "murder in the eyes", in his testimony in court he softened this description and gave a description from which it appears that he and the deceased got out of their vehicles at the same time (p. 614 of Prut, paras. 8-15):
"Q: Do you see him standing and then you get out of the car?