A NEW media report claims Israeli guards supposedly keeping a round-the-clock watch on prisoner and suspected Israeli spy Ben Zygier failed to notice his suicide for a full hour.
Although his cell was fitted with four CCTV cameras, the guards did not see Zygier, identified by media as an Australian-Israeli Mossad agent, remove a sheet from his bed and take it with him into the shower cubicle.
“For an unknown reason, none of the guards discerned him doing that,” the Yedioth Aharonot newspaper reported on Thursday.
It said one camera covered the shower “in a way that allowed for the prisoner’s head to be visible without invading his more intimate privacy”.
“It was only after an entire hour had passed that (the guards) realised that the prisoner was nowhere to be seen in any of the areas picked up by the four cameras, at which point they rushed to his cell, where they discovered his body dangling in the shower stall,” it said.
“They were busy with something else,” a prisons service official told the paper.
“The bottom line is that the prisoner died, and we failed in our job of keeping him alive.”
Findings of an inquest, which were only released for publication on Tuesday, showed Zygier committed suicide in his cell at Ayalon prison on December 15, 2010.
The details emerged after a court loosened a gag order on the case.
Israel has gone to extreme lengths to cover up the story of Zygier’s arrest and death in captivity, imposing a media blackout that was only partially eased last week after Australian broadcaster ABC said he had been jailed in top-secret conditions.
Israel’s parliament is to launch an “intensive” inquiry into the arrest and death of Zygier, who immigrated to Israel around 2001 and was arrested for reasons which remain unknown, in February 2010.
#1 by annebeck58 on February 23, 2013 - 12:15 am
HOW many stories will they come up with regarding this Aussie?
Who believes their shower camera-coverage includes ONLY a prisoner’s head/face? Come on, we know too much about these animals to figure that one is a lie.
And they did not see him carrying a sheet to the SHOWER? Me thinks their stories/lies get more ridiculous as the days go on! This guy was in an ULTRA-secretive, ultra-monitored, space, yet nobody saw anything? I would imagine prisoners get a certain amount of time for showering (is this way in more lax prisons, even), and this is usually about 15 minutes (don’t ask why I know, but I know), which would be a fairly short amount of time for someone to successfully kill himself by hanging.
So, how long did he hang from the shower? Even IF they could only see from the head, above, would this not mean that the shower-head would be above and in their field of view? Do they think we are stupid? (OF COURSE THEY DO!)
I would truly like to hear from this young man’s family, if indeed, it is Zygier- Allen- Alon- Prisoner-X, at ALL. Honestly, where is the family, and why are the silent??
#2 by 1bigcree Shadowhawk on February 23, 2013 - 1:37 am
Yes, more Jewish BULLSHIT!!!!
#3 by jguiseppe' on February 23, 2013 - 4:29 am
Wow!
A group picture of Netanyahoo, Peres, and Ariel Sharon! I knew there was something “HAIRY” about those guys!
#4 by froggy37 on February 24, 2013 - 11:55 pm
“I would truly like to hear from this young man’s family, if indeed, it is Zygier- Allen- Alon- Prisoner-X, at ALL. Honestly, where is the family, and why are the silent??”
Read that they were paid hush money.