Against the background of the negotiations for a plea agreement, Netanyahu's trial continues today (Tuesday) in the Jerusalem District Court.
The testimony of Yaniv Peleg, one of the investigators of state witness Nir Hefetz, began today.
Advocate Boaz Ben-Tzur, Netanyahu's defense attorney, opened the cross-examination. so.
Ben-Zur asked about the surveillance and Peleg replied: "I do not remember if I knew. To say which surveillance was carried out and which methods and duration, I do not know."
Adv. Ben Tzur: "You hear that there are surveillance, so you tell him ..."
Peleg: "I tell a lot of interrogees."
Advocate Ben-Zur: "Former Prime Minister Netanyahu was questioned by the police, and 90% of the details in Appendix A, which was alleged as a bribe, were not presented to him in investigations.
Does that make sense? "
Peleg:" When the suspect is not presented with all the evidence against him in the investigation - it is not correct. "
Adv. Ben-Zur:
Peleg replied: "I would always glorify the capabilities of the unit, I served the unit, in front of the interrogees."
Adv. Ben-Zur: "Do you know that there were threats in Hefetz's interrogation about the dismantling of the family cell
?
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Do you know that there was an interrogation exercise in which they brought together an object and a relative? "
The hearing went behind closed doors due to an investigation into things under a restraining order.
As stated, yesterday began the testimony of Peleg, who was asked about the terms of Hefetz's interrogation and replied that they "were exemplary. He was not handcuffed, neither in his hands nor in his legs, unlike other detainees."
Yaniv Peleg, Photo: Oren Ben Hakon
He added about the interrogation of an object: "When he asked to vacate - vacated. Hot drink - it's a luxury, coffee and tea. When he asked for food - we tried. My job was to bring food and drink. I tried to make it easier for him to make the hours most comfortable. I would take him to the underground "We talked for hours. These conversations were not recorded."
"The object has an exemplary family, I wanted him to think about it"
As for comments made about Hefetz's family, which according to the defense were in fact threats to dismantle, Peleg said: "Nir has an exemplary family, and I thought of raising it, that he would think of his family. It's something cops do. They teach it in the interrogation room."
As for the claim that Peleg pressured Hefetz to change his lawyer, Peleg replied: "I do not know of any such thing, I never intended to offer him to change his lawyer. The first time I heard this was in the media. Nir Hefetz himself compared his lawyer to a doctor during the interrogation. "I accepted myself to the doctor, I told him that he should talk to me as a doctor. The admission was to me."
Adv. Ben Tzur // Photo: without credit,
Judge Moshe Bar-Am commented on the explanation that he "does not fit the analogy."
Bar-Am later pressed Peleg and asked: "You said that the doctor was angry about Nir's medical condition and pointed out something was wrong. Were the doctor's things documented? What was he angry about? Is it related to the way he was held?"
Peleg: "Things were not documented. The bites were still with blisters, the doctor saw them and asked why he got into this condition."
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