Defendant 3 also drove south to the Lakiya area with his mobile phone on him, and this fact will also raise concerns regarding Defendant 3 because he did not know about the intention to murder.
Defendant 3 was arrested about two months after the other defendants in the case were arrested and Muhammad's arrest. During the interrogation of defendant 3 on September 11, 2019, the defendant maintained his right to remain silent throughout the interrogation, but when he was shown his photograph and that of defendant 2 at the Dor Alon gas station in the Lakiya area, defendant 3 confirmed that it was him and defendant 2 (P/14 Q. 116-118), but he did not speak about the other people involved. In another interrogation on September 15, 2019 (P/15), defendant 3 remained silent for most of his interrogation, but said that he did not know about the murder and did not burn anything. Defendant 3 did not deny that he sat with Defendants 1 and 2 and Muhammad at a gas station, but denied that he knew that a murder was about to be committed, and when asked what he thought when he saw Muhammad and Defendant 1 burning the Mazda car, he replied that he did not see that they had burned it. When it was shown to him that he had waited for them to burn the car, he replied that he had not waited for anyone (P/15 S. 20-26). Regarding his phone, defendant 3 stated in his aforementioned interrogation that he did not have a phone and that the screen of his phone had been burned a month or two ago and that he had thrown it on Lod Street (ibid. 63-75). It should be emphasized that the defendant was interrogated two months after the incident, and in these circumstances there is a possibility that is not entirely unreasonable, according to which the defendant threw the phone out of pressure, after realizing that he was involved in a murder case without knowing about it in real time and without intending to be involved in it. Later in his interrogation, the defendant was accused of having phone conversations with Muhammad from the day of the murder on the phone registered in the name of Golda A'savi, so that he could not say that he did not know about the murder, and in his reply, the defendant replied, "I did not know about the murder" (ibid., para. 82).