His testimony in court was heard at the hearing on December 12, 2022. At the beginning of his cross-examination, and after the defense attorney slammed him that although he had had a conversation with the deceased, he did not ask him the "golden question" - who had stabbed him, the witness replied that the deceased's condition was very serious, and he replied to another detective who was at the scene that he was about to die (p. 555). When the witness arrived at the scene, after other policemen, he saw, according to him, the deceased "snorting with blood in his mouth, neck and all over his face, who was slowly taking his last breaths... not always answering you and not always consciously" (p. 557, paras. 7-8).
- The detective (at the time) Nicholas Daniel, A.T.31, testified in court, at the meeting of 23 January 2023. In his main interrogation, the witness said that during his morning shift, with the detective, Sgt. Oren Avni, the two received a report of a patrol incident. When they reached the grandmother's house, from the back, the neighbor Y.A. directed them to the second scene, in the yard of the house. There, they saw "a man lying on the floor", full of blood and stabbed in the body, who repeated that he was going to die. When asked to refer to the report he had filled out on the evening of the incident, 23 March 2021 at 10:37 P.M., and in particular to the fact that he had stated there that the wounded man had a knife in his hand, he replied that he did not remember it. In response to the court's question, he clarified that they were the first to arrive at the wounded man (the deceased), and that they were followed (3-4 minutes later, in his estimation) by additional police and MDA forces arrived through the house itself, which was, too, full of blood. In his cross-examination, he noted that the person who approached the injured man and asked him what had happened to him was the second detective (although he heard the wounded man say he was about to die), and that he himself was busy combing the scene. As for the knife, he replied that he did not remember where it was placed, and if he wrote in the report that it was in the hands of the wounded man, it probably was.
- Rescue and medical personnel:
- United Hatzalah volunteer, paramedic Netanel Attias, A.T.2 - his statement was submitted to the police, dated 24.03.21 (P/31); the confirmation of the incident by United Hatzalah (P/32); the recovery CD made with him, dated 8.04.21 (P/20). with the defense counsel's reservation to the submission without sound); the documentation of the reconstruction (P/20A); and its transcript (P/20B).
This is a medic who arrived first at the scene. According to him, at the time of receiving the call, he was on his way to prayer, in a nearby synagogue. When he got there with the car, he noticed a young man bleeding from his palms and ran on the road (in the reconstruction, he added that it was "with his hands forward", P/20A, para. 14). He called out to him to stop and said he would take care of him. The injured man sat down on the sidewalk and bandaged his fingers with both hands. When he asked the wounded man what had happened to him, they replied, "I fell" (Q. 11), and later he was put in an ambulance. When he wanted to put the bag in the car, the witness received a call from a police officer to go towards the house, and realized that there was another wounded person there. When he arrived at the scene, he saw a wounded man "in serious condition and had cuts to his neck on both sides, he had a cut in his left chest and a very deep stabbing, under his left chest I saw another stab wound" (Q. 13-14). He heard the wounded (deceased) tell one of the policemen that he was going to die, he was vague and did not speak anymore (Q. 25-28). With regard to the minor wounded (the defendant), and the statement that he fell, the witness clarified that he did not cooperate with a policeman who tried to talk to him, and therefore the policeman thought he was blurry, but according to him, "He was not blurred, he was fine, and I say this because I asked him what was going on, are you okay? And he answered me that he was fine" (Q. 22-23).