Moreover, and with reference to the Mercantile video, Rinat expressed doubt that this video was even shown to her during her police interrogation, saying: "Yes. I have never seen this video" (p. 73 of the minutes of the hearing of March 20, 2025, lines 15, 17).
- Uriel, Idan and Rinat all claimed in their testimony in court that even before the videos were shown in their police interrogations, they had spoken to them about the defendant.
Uriel testified in court that when he was interrogated by the police, he believed that the investigation was related to the defendant's arrest, and in his words: "Yes, but... That's it, I'm not... I remember that he was arrested, so I realized that he had something to do with him, because they had arrested... " (p. 73 of the minutes of the hearing of December 22, 2024, line 16), and (in response to the question: "... I mean, did you know before you went to the police that it had to do with Abrahamson?"): "Yes" (ibid., line 18). He further claimed that during his interrogation with the police, the police pressured him to identify the defendant in the videos, as follows: "The police told me all the time, they tried to pressure me and drove me crazy, interrogation, they told me as if they were trying to force me to say that it was him in the video. I said at the beginning of the... He has some kind of resemblance, but I can't attest that it's clearly him. It's dark, it's dark too, and you can only see the..." (p. 48 of the minutes of the hearing of December 22, 2024, lines 6-8), and also: "Did they ask me the same? Similar? I told them, let's say 50 percent... He tried to drive me crazy... So I wanted him to let me go, so I said 80, something like that 80-90 percent, I don't remember" (ibid., lines 17-18). On top of that, Uriel testified that it was the interrogators who planted in his mouth the percentages of identification that he mentioned in his interrogation, and in his own words: (in response to the question: "The percentages, the idea of saying percentages, was it yours or the interrogator's?"): "I don't remember exactly what happened, but I remember that sometimes he would throw it at me, I remember something, I don't know if it was ... " (p. 69 of the transcript of the hearing of December 22, 2024, lines 20-21), and (in response to the question: "Did you go with the interrogator?"): "I went with him. Do I have a choice?" (p. 70 of the minutes of the hearing of December 22, 2024, lines 1-2).