A magistrates court today extended for 30 days the detention of Yona Avrushmi, described by police as the prime susect in the grenade murder of Peace Now activist Emil Grunzweig a year ago. Avrushmi, however, has not yet been formally charged. He was arrested a week ago.
According to police, the alibi offered by Avrushmi, a 28-year-old resident of Ofra on the West Bank, does not hold water. They said the suspect has claimed to have been in three different places at the time the fatal grenade was thrown into a crowd of peace demonstrators outside the prime Minister’s Office on February 10, 1983. The court was given written evidence by the police. 1ts nature was not disclosed.
Meanwhile, the State Prosecutor has been given the file of 20-year-old David Shemtov of Jerusalem who is being held as a suspected accessory to Grunzweig’s murder. He was arrested two weeks ago for allegedly stealing grenades from the military base where he was posted and selling them to several persons, including Avrushmi.
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