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Last update - 23:42 31/08/2008
Rabin assassin Amir suspected of threatening wife's neighbor
By Jonathan Lis, Haaretz Correspondent
Tags: police, Yigal Amir, Israel 

Yigal Amir, the assassin of then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995, reportedly posed as an attorney in a telephone call to a neighbor of his wife, Larissa Trimbobler, after she had argued with the man.

Amir told guards at Hadarim prison, where he is serving a life sentence, of the phone calls, after which authorities decided to withhold visitation and calling privileges from the inmate.

The Israel Prisons Service confirmed on Sunday that Amir's privileges had been suspended for several weeks. On Sunday, the neighbor, Philip Schlechter, complained to Jerusalem police.
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"I never believed that someone who murdered the prime minister of Israel would call to
threaten me," he said. The argument between Trimbobler and the neighbor stemmed from a drainage pipe she had had installed two months ago over the entrance to the Schlechter home.

Last Saturday, the pipe burst and waste spilled onto the entrance of the neighboring residence.

"We have been asking her for some time to move the pipe from the entrance to our home," he said. "We offered her to help us pay for it to be moved to another location, but she refused," he added. Last week he approached Trimbobler again to have the pipe moved, which he said posed a danger to him and his family.

"She asked me, 'Do you know who I am? Don't mess with me,'" he recounted. "When I started to take apart the pipe, she yelled, 'That's my property! Don't take it apart.'"

"That pipe has become a hygienic nightmare for my elderly mother-in-law, my pregnant wife and my kids," he said.

On Saturday night, Amir entered the argument himself. He called Schlechter several times, presenting himself as a lawyer named Mr. Castro.

"My wife answered, and he immediately began threatening her, saying, 'If you don't fix the pipe, you'll be in trouble,'" he said. Noticing that the call was coming from a public phone, he realized that the person on the other end was not a lawyer but Amir.

"I took the phone and said, 'Yigal Amir, go to hell. Don't call here again,'" he said. On Sunday, Trimbobler rejected her neighbor's account, saying Amir did call the man, but did not pose as an attorney, and did not threaten them in any way.

"They're making a lot of noise about nothing," she said.

"This is a neighbor who decided to hitch a ride on Yigal Amir's name and get some publicity. It's a lie that I threatened him, and it's a lie that Yigal threatened him."

Trimbobler said she is used to the media presenting stories involving her husband in a one-sided manner.

She said that in the past, the Prisons Service had accused Amir of trying to smuggle his own sperm sample out of jail, a charge for which he was later penalized. Trimbobler denied that her husband had ever attempted such a transfer.

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