Video: Indictment against the murderer of the Kadoorie couple and a foreign national from Moldova (Photo: Shlomi Heller)
The trial of the murder of the Kadoorie couple and the foreign worker from Moldova: The evidentiary process in the trial of terrorist Wasim a-Said, a 35-year-old Palestinian resident of Hebron, an ISIS operative, which began this week with the testimony of police investigators and the Shin Bet, is reaching an advanced stage, in which the Kadoorie couple's daughter, Hadar Bezalel, will testify today that the terrorist tried to murder her the day before on the street in Armon Hanatziv, And the roommate of the foreign worker from Moldova, whom the terrorist tried to "slaughter."
Exceptionally, al-Said will be allowed to question the witnesses, including the victims of the crime, since the terrorist's lawyer, Mustafa Yahya, asked to be released from representing al-Said after disagreements arose between them, including after al-Said cursed and threatened Yahya.
Tamar and Yehuda Kadoorie z"l (Photo: official website, Mordechai Asraf)
He will be allowed to interrogate the witnesses, terrorist Wasim a-Said (Photo: Israel Police Spokesperson's Office)
During the evidentiary hearing held this week, ISA interrogators testified behind a curtain and returned to the moments of the terrorist's interrogation until the murders were solved and reconstructed. "He's very smart, with a phenomenal memory. Terrible extreme type. But in the end, in the connections of the head, there is some rationale there." The researcher explained, "Since he worked as a sequencer, he bragged that he remembered every protrusion everywhere he stepped through. Also the protrusions in the Kadoorie couple's apartment."
The interrogator also said that before embarking on the murder spree, al-Said claimed that he was in distress, "He wanted to get married and understood that he was going to be arrested, that the army was looking for him. That's what his mother told him, so he decided that if I couldn't prevent my life then I would go out and hurt."
Al-Said was placed in administrative detention a few days after the Kadoorie murder, and remained behind bars for about three years, after being suspected of belonging to the ISIS terrorist organization. Throughout this time, he remained silent and did not tell anyone about the murders he had committed. During interrogation, he explained that "if he hadn't been caught, he wouldn't have told, but since he's already been caught, he wants everyone to know," the interrogator repeated in his testimony.
The scenes where a-Said operated (Photo: official website, photo processing)
The scene of the murder in Jerusalem, where al-Said was arrested in March last year (Photo: Israel Police Spokesperson's Office)
Al-Said claimed during interrogation that the difference between him and terrorist Arafat Arfa'iya, the murderer of young woman Uri Ansbacher in Ein Yael in Jerusalem, was that the latter raped and he did not. "I said I hate him, and I don't even tell him Salam alaykum," al-Said said.
"I slaughtered them," al-Said testified during his interrogation, "describing how the blood was spilled, while describing it he laughs, smiles, he is clearly very proud," the interrogator testified at the trial, "describing how he did it out of a mission, a religious feeling that he was doing the word of God."
"During the reconstruction, it was very important for him to talk to me, there was a stop in the reconstruction and he had an unbearable urge to tell us that he thought some senior Shin Bet official lived here around the site of the murder he committed. It was very important for him to say that. He repeated."
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