In his testimony to the defense question, Muhammad confirms the version of defendants 2 and 3 that on the way back from the meeting point to Lod, there was an argument about the drugs (ibid., p. 266):
"Munir said in police interrogations that on the way back, they asked him, 'What were you talking about?' And he said, you talked about drugs. Confirm to me that in the conversation, on the way back, you really talked about drugs, because there was something planned here.
A: He was supposed to, he was supposed to come back with the drugs, and there were Munir and Younes, they closed with some people to whom they have to bring the drugs today.
Q: Yes.
A: What, this hydro.
Q: Okay.
A: When we came back, when I went up with him, he said to me, where is he, that? Where is the person, where are the drugs of the, this? And I told him, he didn't bring it and I don't know.
Q: Who asked?
A: And he doesn't answer me, he doesn't,
Q: Who asked you, Monir?
A: Monir. Yes. And I told him he wasn't answering my phone.
Q: And you said he wasn't answering your phone. And you told him that there was a combine?
A: I told him that there should be something stinky here, I don't know, he doesn't answer my phone, he always answers, the way I call, the first time he answers."
Muhammad also confirms the statements of defendants 2 and 3 that they did not know that the murder had taken place, and noted that if they had heard about it, "it is not their business at all" (ibid., p. 267).
According to counsel for defendants 2 and 3, Mohammed's statement that the murder matter did not concern defendants 2 and 3 reinforces the statements of defendants 2 and 3 in their testimony in court that they had no interest in taking part in a murder incident, all the more so when defendant 2's brother was murdered and defendant 2 chose not to avenge his death.
I do not accept this argument. Muhammad's version in court, which details facts that he had never told anyone before, has little weight, in part because before his testimony he gave the informant at least many details about himself, which could present a different picture regarding his involvement and that of the others accused of murder. According to Mohammed, in court, those that corroborate details that he gave to the informant or other external evidence carry some weight, but here too the same weight cannot be exaggerated.