If so, there is no further dispute today regarding the facts according to which it was the defendant who picked up his cousins in his car, called the tow truck driver and asked him to come to the Abu Kabir area in order to tow the Mitsubishi, drove with his cousins to the parking lot where the Mitsubishi was kept, and there he dropped off Abed who entered the Mitsubishi and drove it. On a nearby street, with his face camouflaged by a corona mask, and using a screwdriver held in his own car, the defendant assisted Abed's hands in dismantling and replacing the Mitsubishi license plates, so that the original license plates were installed on it, while the duplicate plates were placed in a bag and stored in the defendant's Mazda. The two vehicles then drove one after the other, with the defendant driving his car, to the meeting point to which the defendant directed the tow driver, where the Mitsubishi was loaded onto the tow truck, and a few minutes later all four people involved were arrested. To complete the picture, I will briefly note that Abed, who testified on behalf of the defense, also confirmed that he was the one who drove the Mitsubishi from the parking lot and changed the license plates, and this fact was also contradicted in his ID on the original license plates of the Mitsubishi, from the rear, who is not exposed to random contact [P/135E-G - TA inspection report and identification notices].
While all these facts do not incriminate the defendant of direct involvement in the murder that took place three days earlier, it does attest to the defendant's deep involvement, as a leading and guiding figure, in the disruptive activities, which were clearly intended to disguise the identity of one of the vehicles used to commit the murder, and to conceal it from the eyes of the investigators. These were planned and complex operations, carried out together with others, efficiently and decisively, with a meticulous division of duties, which ostensibly attest to the defendant's belonging to the secret circle, in relation to all the events related to the murder and in an attempt to prevent the exposure of his perpetrators. In this sense, the events that took place on August 29, 2022, also connect the defendant to some extent to the acts that took place on the day of the murder, three days earlier. The defendant's attempts during the police interrogation to disguise his involvement in the acts clearly attest to his understanding of their importance and their consequences, and the failure of these attempts, stands in the way of the acts he committed and strengthens the evidence regarding his personal involvement in the murder.