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Qatargate: Urich’s lawyer claims he collapsed during interrogation, was told to ‘shut up’ by police when he complained of chest pain
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Attorney Amit Hadad, who is representing Jonatan Urich in the so-called Qatargate scandal, alleges in a hearing at the Rishon LeZion Magistrate’s Court that his client collapsed during a police interrogation the other day.
The focus of the hearing is a police request to extend Urich’s remand, and that of fellow suspect Eli Feldstein, by an additional seven days.
In an exchange reported on by Channel 12, Hadad tells the court that Urich had informed the police detective questioning him that he was having chest pain but was told to “Shut up.”
The police representative present at the court hearing denies Hadad’s version of events.
“You didn’t do anything about his pain until he was on his way to the [police] car, and then Urich lost consciousness and fell to the ground,” Hadad asserts, adding that only then was an ambulance called.
Counteracting him, the police representative says Hadad’s version of events is “not accurate.”
The police representative claims that he “came immediately to the parking lot” when informed that Urich had passed out and needed an ambulance.
“I saw Urich sitting on the ground, but he wasn’t unconscious,” he says.
He says Urich had refused to be taken to the hospital because he didn’t want to be seen in handcuffs, and so was instead treated by Magen David Adom in the interrogation room.
The Times of Israel Community.