Image Credit: CPT August 4th, 2006.
HEBRON: Update on Christian Peace Team monitoring home invasion
CPT via BBSNews 2006-08-16 -- 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."
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Beit Romano Checkpoint, Hebron. In the Occupied West Bank of the Palestinian Territories.
Image Credit: CPT August 4th, 2006. |
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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