Police investigator for Nir Hefetz (from the interrogation video): "The bomb you hijack in the next two days will shock your world. You do not take into account our capabilities, or what we can do. We are 433, our interrogation methods are most similar to the GSS. "I imagine it could be - will be. I'm not cheating on you, Nir. Your children will not want to be in touch with you, not even your wife. The consequences beyond prison and the media ... your family cell is in danger."
Hefetz: "The threat was clear. If I did not provide a version, there would be a threat to my family."
(Nir Hefetz cross-examination, 01/12/21)
Welcome to Nir Hefetz's Hell.
I can not be suspected of forfeiting him in any way, but what came out this week from the first two days of his cross-examination must shake the barriers here.
Ben Tzur to the object: "Did you put food in your shoes?".
Hefetz: "Maybe, the cell was full of cockroaches ... I was transferred from one detention center to another, there were days when I did not receive medication (for blood pressure) and they told me 'break your head with the IPS'".
Made a real Hollywood production here.
30 investigators and detectives, in disguised cars, move the object daily between the detention centers in Israel, from Kishon in the north to Shikma in the south, a real package passes.
Sleep deprivation, medication and food.
Dozens of investigative exercises that trample on basic human rights, as if it were a ticking time bomb.
This is not democracy.
This is Sodom.
Hefetz: "Investigator Nir Schwartz's interrogations were aggressive on the verge of violence. It was the Schwartz Inquisition. The second night I woke up full of bedbugs and bites. Terrible itching and blisters. I asked them to give me something to ease it, not to stop an investigation, that's all.
It's been three or four days of itching that drove me crazy. "
Adv. Ben Tzur: "And the investigators laughed at you."
Hefetz: "Absolutely, they pushed me, they kept arguing with me and my suffering."
Ben-Zur: "We are in a seemingly democratic country, with basic rules. Did the researchers have fun with your situation?"
Hefetz: "Laughing, joking about my situation."
Hefetz's testimony reveals a terrifying reality, in which at one moment - every person in Israel can be arrested and imprisoned in a cell full of fleas and then undergo a mask of abuse and extortion, his and his family's, forfeiture of his bank accounts, all with the aim of phishing to incriminate another person.
This is what the State of Israel looks like 2021. Hanukkah, but great darkness outside.
No longer a villa in the jungle.
Just a jungle.
Dangerous only to those who are marked.
The rest spend as if there is no tomorrow.
Selective enforcement is evil, but the high-ranking legal clerk is less impressed by the pathos.
This is how it works.
They are allowed to lie.
They are allowed to break the law.
They are allowed to dismantle the DIP (Police Investigations Department) to enable the completion of the hunt.
Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit lied with a determined forehead when he claimed that "there is no basis for allegations of pressure on state witnesses in the case."
Police lied when they claimed there were no improper investigative exercises.
So many lies.
Do not be confused for a moment.
The police did not act alone for a moment.
Accompanying attorneys were attached to the investigation.
At least two status updates a day, meaning a meeting of the staff including attorneys.
Someone here gave permission for violations of the law.
And only in a dilapidated country where the prosecution can, the obsessive hunt for a political leader blinded their eyes and drove them so crazy that they embarked on a campaign to extort a state witness, even before they had any idea what former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's offense was.
As Advocate David Forer said: “In a murder case, for example, there is a body and environment looking for a motive and defendants.
Netanyahu wanted to find an offense / charges at all costs.
He was the target, and around him they were looking for key people to help them find something about him. "
Behind closed doors: Excerpts from the interrogations of Witness Hefetz are projected.
Hefetz: "There were heavy pressures that I would sign and allow them to copy the materials from the computer. I realized that it was a threat, that they would dismantle my privacy. It was not said in hints."
Ben-Zur: "The interrogator tells you that he knows where you were the night before you were arrested, and hints at surveillance."
Object: "Just like that."
Ben Tzur: "Confirm to me that they tried to look for vulnerabilities about you."
Hefetz: "That's how I understand, and that's how I understood during my detention. There have been repeated attempts to get me to change lawyers."
But everyone's optical mistake is the disconnect between the terrible measures taken to break his spirit, his "clear" decision to sign a state witness agreement and testify "only truth," as he puts it.
We will leave aside the fact that we also have to believe that there is no connection.
Probably Gilad Shalit in captivity also spoke freely.
After all, his "clear decision" is equally valid only according to the ombudsman, who was satisfied after the interrogators demanded that the interrogees, between a criminal interrogation exercise and another, tell the truth.
After all, this is someone who has had a terrifying experience.
He knows what awaits him if he testifies otherwise and violates the agreement until the state.
Therefore, he really has no choice but to testify to this forced testimony.
We will leave aside even an argument of protection from justice.
But it is impossible to ignore what is actually shouted from the main investigation - that after all the original torture mask Hefetz signed the agreement, and in fact did not incriminate Netanyahu.
Nada.
And finally, I must go back and memorize to you how vital your role, as a public and as citizens, is in all this happening.
You are the true jurors.
There are commendable civic initiatives here.
Great respect to the lawyer Kinneret in my head, who put together an extremely important project.
To Avi Weiss and Ido Shifoni, who broadcast with her and read and interpret the transcript of the sentence, live, three times a week.
Search for Kinneret Barashi's page on social media or YouTube. Really share them all. We're in Money Time.
And a big congratulations to Guy Levy, Dr. Adi Sabo and all the volunteers of Project 315. Dive into their website, to break down the 315 events that make up the death clause in the 4000 case.
The truth will win.
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