Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit and the top investigators will decide this week whether to continue a criminal investigation into the failure of the prisoners to escape from Gilboa Prison, in light of the expected establishment of the government investigation committee.
After the disaster in Meron, the police and DIP began investigating those responsible for the disaster, but with the decision to establish a government commission of inquiry, the investigations of the two bodies became redundant and the investigation was suspended.
Police Commissioner Saturn responds to the arrest of the terrorists // Photo: Police Spokeswoman
Following the escape of the terrorists, the unit for investigating police officers and guards at Lahav 433 opened an investigation into the incident, and on Tuesday it was decided to attach to the investigation the national riddle for international criminal investigations (Yahaval).
The investigation conducted so far shows that guards did not understand the magnitude of the danger inherent among the terrorists in the prison turned a blind eye and behaved with the security prisoners in a way that is not expected of them in order to buy imaginary silence in the prison.
It also turns out that a committee that was supposed to check the cells every week apparently did not do its job.
The terrorist Zakaria Zabeidi was transferred the day before the escape to the cell where the tunnel was located, contrary to orders and without a report.
Spokesman Avichai Mandelblit, Gideon Markovich
It also appears that a warden who was on duty at the guard tower watching the cistern from the tunnel shaft fell asleep and a warden sitting in the control room did not notice the fleeing terrorists.
Last night, four of the six terrorists who escaped were captured.
Among those arrested was Zechariah Zabeidi.
The hunt for two of the terrorists continues.