Duma suspect says Shin Bet used ‘women singing’ to extract confession

The main suspect in the fatal Duma attack, in which three members of the Dawabsha family were burned to death last July, tells Channel 2 about the Shin Bet interrogation, and denies the allegations against him.

Amiram Ben-Uliel says he “didn’t cooperate until they understood I don’t listen to women’s voices,” for religious reasons, and would play the radio. When he got up to turn it off, they would handcuff him “and beat him up a bit.”

The Shin Bet then brought in a woman interrogator “who would sing to me,” he says, and at one point touched him on the shoulder.

After 18 days, they interrogated him all night.

In the next stage — after the attorney general ruled the national security agency could treat the suspects as “ticking bombs” — he claims the interrogators slapped him, and handcuffed him in painful positions.

“I screamed terribly,” he tells Channel 2, but would not talk.

Ben-Uliel says the interrogators told him they would “drink your blood from your ears.”

At one point, he told them: “I’ll talk, I’ll talk.” He later reenacted the scene at Duma.

He told them no one was with him during the attack, “and they didn’t believe me.”

After meeting with his lawyer, Ben-Uliel retracted his confession, but “they didn’t want to listen.” He continues to profess his innocence.

The Shin Bet says, in response, that the interrogation was conducted in accordance with the law.