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Police unable to find solid evidence against prime suspect in Bat Yam beach shooting By Roni Singer-Heruti Tags: shooting, Israel, Bat Yam Police are having trouble amassing solid evidence against suspected underworld kingpin Itzik Abergil, who was arrested last week on suspicion of involvement in the murder of Margarita Lautin. Lautin was killed at a Bat Yam beach three weeks ago when a suspected underworld assassination attempt went awry: Instead of striking the intended victim, one of the bullets hit her. The two suspects whom police arrested at the scene of the crime, Shimon Sabah and Ronen Ben-Adi, are refusing to talk, and this has hampered the police's efforts to incriminate Abergil. He was apparently arrested not due to anything they said, but on the basis of a wiretapped conversation that occurred before Lautin's murder. Advertisement Police interrogations of Abergil have also not yielded any useful information. Nevertheless, investigators plan to ask for an extension of his remand, in the hopes that a few leads they are currently following will bear fruit. In contrast, police are convinced that they will soon have enough evidence to indict Sabah and Ben-Adi for murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to commit a crime. The attempted murder charge stems from what police believe was an attempt to assassinate both Rami Amira and Moti Hassin - two known criminals who were on the beach not far from Lautin and her family when she was killed - or, possibly, just Amira. According to information obtained by the police, Amira was at odds with Abergil over several issues, but primarily over his failure to pay debts to Abergil. If Amira was the sole intended target, than Hassin's role would presumably have been to get him to the scene of the planned assassination without him suspecting anything. Bookmark to del.icio.us   Safe haven reached 200 fleeing Georgia after the outbreak of hostilities arrive at Israel's Ben-Gurion Airport. Man dies of 'broken heart' Severely disabled man dies of a heart attack after his long-term girlfriend was arrested by Immigration Police.   1.   Police having trouble amassing ..................... 08:22  |  HAL 13/08/08   2.   But they get great evidences against demonstrators 12:37  |  Ivan 13/08/08   3.   Why not use torture? 12:44  |  Andreas 13/08/08   4.   Police are criminals themselves!! 13:19  |  JB 13/08/08   5.   As usual: criminals returns to freedom... 13:53  |  Ulf 13/08/08   6.   It is because of the settlers Ulf- ask Avirama Golan 14:12  |  sharon 13/08/08

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