The defendant was also interrogated regarding additional indications, which will be detailed later in a dedicated chapter, that the 685 subscriber was in his possession and use throughout the weekend, and not in Samer's hands, and he had difficulty providing explanations for this. One of the most striking findings in this context relates to a conversation that took place on Sunday at 13:15 from subscriber 685 to the phone number of a magnet importer company in Beit Shemesh, which was received in a text message sent by Wasfi a few minutes earlier to the 401 subscriber. The defendant denies it, and claims that he was looking for magnets only on Monday, and that he received the recommendation for the company in Beit Shemesh only when he was in Holon, and beyond that he has no explanation [ibid., at pp. 653-655].
As for the hummus, the defendant says that he and Odei met a lot of people, but he doesn't remember names. The drive time there from the family complex is 5-6 minutes, so they arrived a little after seven. There were a lot of people in the place, and the restaurant wasn't opened specifically for them. The rest of the details on which the defendant was interrogated in this interrogation have already been included in previous chapters, and there is no need for further elaboration.
Credibility of the Defendant - General
As explained at length above, the answers given by the defendant at the stage of the police investigation, in relation to all the issues in dispute, can be divided into two parts. In the first part, the defendant refrained from giving substantive answers regarding his actions on the day of the murder and on the day of the arrest, falsely claiming memory impairments, and in fact not only did he maintain silence, with all that this entails from an evidentiary aspect, but he even lied to the intermediary when he claimed memory difficulties. In the second part, when confronted with the evidence that was gathered, link by link, the defendant responded with blatant lies, denying a wide range of facts that are no longer in dispute today, for example, regarding his actions on the day of his arrest, including ordering the tow truck, dismantling the plates and loading the Mitsubishi, regarding his close connection to the 685 subscriber, the screenshot and much more, all as detailed in detail above. In his testimony in court, the defendant openly admitted that he lied to the interrogators on almost every subject he was asked about, and even his counsel does not deny this, and only ask not to attribute too much evidentiary weight to it [Defense Summaries, paragraphs 191-196].