After the attack
Photo: Gil Nehushtan
Three of the defendants in court
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Defense: Video evidence missing in Shfaram lynch case
Prosecution fails to hand over video footage of 2005 lynch of Jewish terrorist, Eden Natan-Zada, to defense, reports it missing. Attn. Ahmed Raslan, representing five of seven indicted in case, suspects fishy behavior, demands that evidence produced from video be dismissed
A short time following the 2005 terrorist attack
in Shfaram in which four people were killed, the police sent out an unmanned drone to take pictures of the site of the attack and the goings-on below, according to a Channel 1 report on Monday.
Rally
Hagai Einav
Large-scale rally in Shfaram protests against indictment of 12 men for lynching soldier in August 2005, after he shot four residents to death on a bus
The lawyer representing five of the Shfaram residents being implicated in the lynch of Eden Natan-Zada, the terrorist who perpetrated the attack, is asking that some of the evidence in the case be dismissed on the grounds that still frames were made from the video clip filmed by the drone and were shown to the defendants.
"They started to summon residents of Shfaram seen in the video. They were asked what they were doing there, who was standing next to them, what he does – all based on these pictures," said Attn. Ahmed Raslan, who is representing five of the seven defendants indicted for their alleged involvement in the lynch of soldier-terrorist Eden Natan-Zada.
According to him, throughout the proceedings prior to the indictment, which is the stage in which the prosecution is obligated to provide the defense with all evidence it has obtained, the police and the prosecution claimed before the court that they had in their hands a video documenting the events.
According to the Channel 1 report, Elbit, the company that operated drone, handed the footage over to the police, but then it went missing. "If the video from which the pictures in which you see the defendants were produced did indeed disappear, what good are the pictures? This video is the most solid evidence that could acquit the defendants, and, quite conveniently, it is the very thing that disappeared," said Attn. Raslan.
He added, "When we started demanding the video be brought forth, the prosecution started taking action to obtain the issuance of immunity over the material, and more and more delays. Until this very moment, we still haven't seen the video. I am certain that it is still in police and intelligence possession and that they are not interested in passing it over to us, and for a reason."
The Northern Police District reported that they are unaware of the issue.
Sharon Roffe-Ofir contributed to this report
