Attorney drops Rose Pizem's grandfather as client in murder probe

Attorney Revital Swid announced late Sunday she will no longer represent Ronny Ron in the police probe into his suspected murder of 4-year-old Rose Pizem, his granddaughter.

Swid will still represent Rose's mother, Marie-Charlotte Renault, who is being investigated for involvement in the suspected murder. Police believe Ron, Renault's live-in lover, killed the girl earlier this year with her mother's knowledge and threw her body in the Yarkon River.

The attorney told Haaretz that she had concluded that it would not be right to continue working for both Renault and Ron, despite not believing there to be a conflict of interest between the pair.

Swid said her decision came "In light the fact that Rose's body has now been found - which from Marie's point of view makes something that was abstract and unclear now real and substantive - and in light of the fact that [Marie] has expressed a lot of anger about him."

Coroners at Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine finished examining what was left of the girl's body on Friday, after police divers found it in the Yarkon the previous day.

Swid visited Ron in custody Sunday, where she informed him of her decision. He reportedly understood the need for separate representation and said he would instruct his own attorney.

She added: "The development was the discovery of the body. As long as you have two clients who are indifferent toward each other, in a professional sense, this is okay. But when one expresses this sort of anger or harsh feelings toward the other, it is not correct.

"Marie told me this on Friday, and [then] I no longer felt right about continuing to represent them together, because something is likely to be created here that I already don't want to be caught in the middle of."

Meanwhile, police sources told Haaretz Sunday that Rose's remains will be flown to France and buried there some time this week.