According to counsel for defendants 2-3, the fact stated above emphasizes the difficulty in the conduct of the investigating unit, and all the more so the conduct of one of the two investigators – Investigator Saban, who presented the defendant with the suspicions against him in his first interrogation on 15 July 2019, and according to him, it is inconceivable that a person suspected of murder did not know about it at the first moment he was arrested and interrogated.
According to the defense attorneys, during the defendant's fourth interrogation, Investigator Zeitoun did indeed enter the interrogation room and announced
The defendant is suspected of murder, but as noted, this was discussed in the defendant's fourth interrogation.
Hearing - Indeed, in the first interrogation of Defendant 2, the Defendant was not warned that he was suspected of committing the offense of murder. However, a review of his other interrogations by the police reveals that in the defendant's second interrogation, which took place on 16 July 2019 at 13:06 p.m., the day after his first interrogation, he was explicitly told that he was suspected of the murder of the deceased, "a suspect in the murder of Wasim al-Sayed" (P/10B, pp. 3, 13-14). In his third interrogation he was told that he was suspected of conspiracy to murder the deceased (P/11B, p. 2, S. 8), and in his fourth interrogation he was told again that he was charged with the offense of murder (P/12B, p. 14). Indeed, it is possible that Investigator Saban would have done well if he had informed the defendant already in his first interrogation that he was suspected of murder, but it is also possible that at the said stage, as the accuser claims, the investigating unit was not yet sure that this was an actual murder offense. The investigative unit "corrected" itself already in the second interrogation, and informed defendant 2 that he was suspected of murder, and in his third interrogation he was informed that he was suspected of conspiracy to commit murder, (in the fourth interrogation they again accused him of murder), and in this sense these are much more serious offenses than the offense of aiding after the fact, which he was suspected of in the first interrogation. In these circumstances, it cannot be said that the actions of the investigative unit in warning the defendant amounted to an investigation failure.