The State Attorney’s Office announced on Thursday that it would file an indictment against Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu Sisi on Monday. With the filing of the indictment, the public will learn for the first time about the crimes that Abu Sisi allegedly committed – and about a possible link to abducted soldier Gilad Schalit.Abu Sisi, who has been in custodyin Israel for 40 days, after disappearing from a train in the Ukraine, appeared in court yesterday for his remand hearing. He subsequently spoke to reporters. Read the story here
The Jerusalem Post: Abu Sisi denies all knowledge of Gilad Schalit
Palestinian engineer Dirar Abu Sisi speaks with journalists in a court room in Petah Tikva, central Israel, Thursday, March 31, 2011. Israeli authorities have informed a Palestinian engineer who vanished on a Ukrainian train and mysteriously turned up in an Israeli prison that he will be indicted next week, his lawyer said Thursday. Sisi disappeared in the early hours of Feb. 19 after boarding a training in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv, bound for the capital Kiev. He surfaced days later in an Israeli prison. His family says he was kidnapped by Israel's Mossad spy agency.
