Elize handed over to prosecutors with tight escort

Elize handed over to prosecutors with tight escort

JAKARTA (JP): Tight security marked the hand-over of bomb
suspect Elize Maria Tuwahatu from the city police to the Jakarta
Provincial Prosecutor's Office on Tuesday.

At least 20 armed Mobile Brigade (Brimob) police officers in
six vehicles provided a security escort for Elize's trip to the
prosecutor's office.

Arrested for the possession of three bombs at Taman Mini
Indonesia Indah recreation park in East Jakarta on Jan. 19, Elize
made headlines when she told police that it was fugitive Hutomo
"Tommy" Mandala Putra who gave her the bombs.

Elize smilingly said "no comment" to the hordes of reporters,
as she got into the police van, on Tuesday afternoon.

She was immediately sandwiched by Brimob officers, who
accompanied her to the prosecutor's office.

"We fear her life is in danger, and we absolutely do not want
anything to happen to her. Even on her way to the prosecutors
office, traffic police will guide the police vans through
traffic, so that she reaches there quickly, and safely," city
police secretary to chief of detectives, Sr. Comr. Abdullah, told
reporters.

Separately, city police detective chief for special crimes Sr.
Comr. Winarno said that Elize would be tried according to the
"1951 Emergency Law on possession of bombs".

Elize arrived at the prosecutor's office, handcuffed and
guarded by police officers, at about 12:30 p.m.

She was officially handed over by Sr. Comr. Winarno to state
prosecutors Surung Aritonang and Fachruddin.

Elize, Winarno said, was then escorted by prosecutors to the
general crimes division of the Prosecutor's Office, on the fourth
floor, where she was questioned by prosecutors.

Evidence handed over on Tuesday to state prosecutors included
one Matahari shopping plastic bag, two sticks of TNT, a watch
functioning as a switch, a dry cell, at least 15 dynamite sticks
weighing 2.1 kilograms, a five-liter can of thinner, two
detonators, and steel nails.

Other evidence already handed over to prosecutors are a Timor
sedan, a Toyota Kijang van and a Blue Bird taxi.

At about 1:30 p.m., Elize was transported to the Pondok Bambu
Women's Penitentiary by a vehicle of the Prosecutor's Office,
where she will be held for a period of 20 days, before
prosecutors can extend her stay for another 30 days.

The arrest of Elize on Jan. 19 this year was made possible due
to telephone calls made to the East Jakarta Police and the
Attorney General's Office, by 38-year-old psychic Agung Yulianto,
known to his clients as Ki Joko Bodo.

Joko, who Elize learned about from a magazine about mysticism,
had reportedly been assigned to plant the bombs by Elize.

Unknown to Elize, Joko contacted police and informed them that
Tommy had taken out death contracts for Attorney General Marzuki
Darusman and Minister of Industry and Trade Luhut Panjaitan.
(ylt)