Later in his testimony, the complainant stated that he had spoken to the police officers at the hospital while he was blurred from medication and that he did not know and did not remember what he had told them. The complainant replied in court that he did not remember anything about the incident about which he was asked, including whether he was shot on July 20, 2022, and therefore could not answer the questions addressed to him. When asked if he knew a man known as "Yayo," he replied that he had heard in the neighborhood that there was a man named Yayo Tarkin and that he was gay. When asked whether "Yayo" was the defendant, he replied: "I don't know who it is, what is it" (p. 352 of the protégé). In his cross-examination as well, the complainant adhered to his version that he did not remember anything from the day of the incident and therefore could not relate to the fact that he had given the police the name of the defendant or that one of the policemen had mentioned the name of the defendant (p. 356 of the protégé). The complainant stated that he did not remember a dispute between him and the defendant and did not remember that he had given the police things in this context (pp. 360, 364 of the protégé). The complainant claimed that he did not understand the types of weapons and did not know what a Carlo type weapon was (p. 362 of Prut). The complainant stated that he did not remember that the police showed him the defendant's picture after he gave them the name "Yayo Tegania" (pp. 364-365 of Pruth).
Statements of the complainant's wife to the police
- The complainant's wife gave two testimonies to the police on July 20, 2022 and July 26, 2022, during the complainant's hospitalization, when he was anesthetized and on a ventilator.
The interrogation of the complainant's wife, on July 20, 2022, took place at her home, about an hour after the shooting incident in the playground. The witness said that she took her son to the garden, while her husband (the complainant) went to cut his hair at Michael's hairdresser. At 1:07 P.M., she called the complainant and asked when he would arrive because it was already hot, and he replied that he would finish within 5 minutes. At the same time, a man she described as a dark Ethiopian with thick, thin lips, dressed in black, rode a black electric bicycle with a backpack and a black helmet. He turned around and looked. When the complainant arrived at the garden, the cyclist clung to him and spoke to him quietly, so that she did not hear what he said to her husband, but she heard her husband say to him, "What do you want?" The complainant's wife said that she asked her husband who it was, and he replied: "Leave it untied." The cyclist continued to ride and her husband rocked their son on a swing. The witness described that at this point she noticed that the cyclist was driving to a residential building near the kindergarten, took out a weapon from his bag, which she described as a long pistol and not a long army weapon, and she herself shouted to warn her husband. According to her, the shooter ran towards her husband and stood in front of him. Her husband said to him, "What are you doing?" The shooter told her husband to move the girl away, and while her husband was rocking their son, the shooter fired two bullets into his abdomen from about 2 meters away, and she saw that he had been hit. The shooter then ran back toward the block, where he left his bike, and her husband ran from the scene toward the grocery store, so he wouldn't shoot him again. The complainant's wife called the police, noting that she had not seen her husband since. The witness noted that the shooter could have hit her son. The witness stated that they lived in Rishon LeZion, but came to the same garden because her husband was cutting his hair near the place (P/64, P/64A).