But afterwards, some people believed they actually took someone with a Basij car. They said he was on a motorcycle, coming the other way and hiding in a corner. Some people shouted: “We caught him! We caught him!”. People went towards him and they disarmed him and took out his identity card, which was of a Basij member. And he was shouting, – because people were furious – he was shouting: “I didn’t want to kill her! I didn’t want to kill her!”. People just caught him and they didn’t know what to do with him. Some people said: “Don’t harm him! We are not killers like them!”. And… well, I was a few meters away, watching. I was shocked, so I didn’t participate anything.
Hejazi: I was just looking at them, watching, yes. And they said: “We can’t even give him back to the police, because they would just let him go away. So what should we do?”.
Intervistatrice: But they were certain in their own minds that he was from the Basij militia and that he was the one responsible?
Hejazi: Yes, I heard him. He didn’t say “I wasn’t the one who shot her”, I think he was just crying, because he was afraid, “I didn’t want to kill her!”.
So they let him go, because they didn’t know what to do with him; they should have either harmed him or given him back to the police and none of them would work in that situation, and they were afraid to expose themselves to the police. They just let him go and they took his identity cards. I don’t know those people who took his identity cards, but I know that there are people there who know who he is. I noticed that some people were taking photos of him, but I don’t know who they are as well. And then I went back to my office to wash my hands and when I came out people had scattered. And that’s what I have seen.
Questa è la versione fornita da Hejazi alla BBC. Ma in precedenza Hejazi aveva fornito una versione del tutto diversa, ancora leggibile su Wikipedia: