Moshe Douek, who confessed to throwing the hand grenade which last week wounded five Cabinet Ministers, including Prime Minister David Ben Gurion won a demand today that he receive prison privileges during his detention for trial on charges of attempted murder.
District Court Judge Peretz, while denying the 25-year-old Iraq immigrant’s request for release on bail, accepted the defendant’s arguments that for family and health reasons he should be permitted visitors and exercise privileges. The judge also ruled that Douek should be removed from solitary confinement in which he had been placed when he was arrested.
Speaking in his own behalf in fluent Hebrew, Douek anticipated prosecution objections to his plea for release on bail by admitting a previous attempt to leave Israel as a stowaway. He insisted he had not tried to escape from the country but that he merely had wanted a free ride.”
Douek in the course of his plea, referred to the hand grenade attack and admitted attempted murder. Judge Peretz thereupon urged him to confine himself to his pleas and warned him against self-incriminating statements.
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