Already in his first interrogation with the police, the defendant was asked to explain his behavior on the day of his arrest, around taking the Mitsubishi out of the parking lot and putting it on the trailer, and denied any involvement in the acts. The defendant claimed that he did not remember where he was arrested and that he had arrived there by chance. He also claimed that he did not remember exactly when he met with his cousins Abed and Oddai, where they traveled together and why they came to the Tel Aviv area. He claimed that he did not remember if they were in the parking lot, if someone got out of the Mazda, if they ordered a tow truck, if they were involved in towing any vehicle and if they changed license plates. Regarding the plates seized in the Mazda, he claimed that the search was conducted out of his line of sight and that the officers planted the plates that were found. He confirmed that the screwdriver seized in the Mazda belonged to him, but claimed that it was not related to any change of plates [P/149 at pp. 3-15]. When he was accused of having come to the area in order to load the Mitsubishi, he claimed that he had nothing to do with it, that he had not seen the tow truck driver at all, that he had not arranged with anyone to eat and had not asked to tow the Mitsubishi [ibid., pp. 20-24].
He repeated similar positions in his second interrogation, including the claims that he did not remember what he did on the day of his arrest, that he had nothing to do with the dismantling of license plates and loading the Mitsubishi into a tow truck, and that the police had implanted the forged license plates in Mazda [P/152 at pp. 10-15], as well as in the transcript of the third and fourth interrogations, which were carried out consecutively [P/156 at pp. 22, 25-30, 34-35]. During his sixth and final interrogation, he was even shown documentation of the vehicles in the parking lot and the replacement of the plates, but nevertheless the defendant claimed that he did not identify the vehicles or himself, that the screwdriver was not used to dismantle the plates, and that he had nothing to do with these acts [P/164 at pp. 79-83].