CPTnet
15 August 2006
HEBRON: Update on CPTers detained on Friday
Dianne Roe called the Kiryat Arba police station Monday morning, 14 August,
and asked for investigator Yitzhak, the one who had taken the camera and
tapes Friday night (see 12 August CPTnet release, "CPTers monitoring home
invasion detained for five hours.") The woman who answered the phone said
that Yitzhak was on vacation and that Captain Chai was now in charge. The
woman checked with Chai and then told Roe, "You may come now to get your
video camera."
Roe and John Lynes arrived at the back gate of the Kiryat Arba station at
about 10:30 a.m. Roe showed the receipt through the fence and an official
told her, "Just one minute." Over the next hours, after several
unsuccessful phone calls, including one from Roe asking to use the rest
room, Roe and Lynes entered the gate of the police station about 3:30 in the
afternoon, five hours after they arrived. Inside the gate they again waited
because "the investigator with the key is not here."
Just before 4:00 p.m. Avshalom Tasha, the "investigator with the key"
returned the video camera to Roe, but did not return the tape of the 11
August home invasion. "The tape must remain in police custody as evidence,"
he told her. He did not know if she could get it back when the case was
closed.
An Israeli friend who is following the case told Roe that she called a high
official in Hebron and that the police are continuing to investigate the
soldier complaint against Roe and are holding the tape for evidence. The
official told Roe's Israeli friend that the venue is available for Roe to
file a complaint against the soldier who asked her to leave, and the officer
who tried to take her camera.
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