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Criminal Case (Be’er Sheva) 29984-08-16 State of Israel v. Muhammad Zoabi - part 8

August 17, 2017
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Some of this evidence is relevant and contributes to reaching factual conclusions, and some is irrelevant.  The relevant evidence will be detailed below.

I will now briefly address the evidence in the main dispute, which will be discussed at length below :

P/172 - CD containing a photocopy of the defendant's interrogation dated August 2, 2016 (M.I.  16/1526) .  This exhibit (and its transcription P/172B) and this investigation constitute the main dispute in the case.

The defendant was interrogated on August 2, 2016, an interrogation that he signed and submitted with consent (P/163).  There is no dispute about this first stage of his interrogation on 2 August 2016, in the framework of P/163.

At the end of the part of the interrogation documented in P/163, there is a break of a few minutes, during which the interrogator replaces the recording disc, since he wanted to stop the interrogation in this case, and move on to the interrogation of the defendant in another case (the Alambi file).  For this purpose, the interrogator went out to change the disc, and when he returned and when it was necessary to begin the investigation in the case of the Commander-in-Chief, a discourse initiated by the defendant began regarding the affair of the theft of the weapons, in this case.  This discourse is recorded in its entirety in the framework of P/172, and in practice constitutes the continuation of the investigation into the weapons matter , and all while the defendant is the one who continues on his own initiative, at the beginning of that second stage, the discourse on the weapon, he is the one who turns to the interrogator and refers him to the words written in the statement that was taken minutes earlier, and he raises questions and says things on his own initiative in a way that develops a long discourse.  which can only be seen as an integral part of the continuation of the interrogation that took place in the framework of P/163.  This is a continuation of the interrogation that lasts about 4 hours, in which the defendant says things that amount to an explicit confession in his part in the affair, and he says things that testify to his part, his knowledge and involvement in the incident.

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