Counsel for the defendants argued that when the informant was asked in court why he chose not to inquire with Muhammad whether defendant 2 "knew" about the incident or "knew" about the incident in advance and in real time, the informant replied that Muhammad was afraid, and that he himself could not ask Muhammad too many questions (P. of April 4, 2021, pp. 222, paras. 5-29).
Muhammad himself also confirmed in court (in testimony which, as stated, is of low weight) that there was talk of Defendant 2's knowledge of the murder from the time of the dubbing conversation and not from a real time, and in his statement he noted that during the conversation with the informant, "the whole world knew" about the murder (P. 14.2.22, p. 267), so that Defendant 2's knowledge of the murder was nothing special. These are things that were made only during the testimony in court, and not in the police, and therefore have little weight.
Later, the informant was interrogated by the accuser's attorney on the question of whether he understood from Muhammad that Defendant 2 knew about the murder at the time of the conversation or knew about the murder when it was committed, and at a certain point the court intervened and asked, "When did Munir know?And the informant replied, "He, Mohammed, said that Munir knew about him, about the murder, and I don't know at what point he told me that."
Discussion - It should be emphasized that Muhammad's statement to the informant about Muhammad "knowing" about the murder was made on 8 July 2019 , about three weeks after the murder, and there is a possibility that it is certainly not unreasonable that Muhammad meant that at the time, at the time of the conversation with the informant, defendant 2 already knew about the murder, but this does not indicate that defendant 2 knew about the murder in real time. From here, it would not be unreasonable to assume that in this matter, Muhammad's words in court were truthful.
This is a clear text according to which Muhammad confirmed to the informant twice that Defendant 2 "knew" about the murder, and from a linguistic point of view, there should be no way that this is not an unequivocal statement that means knowledge from the time of the murder.