The Times of Israel
French authorities opened an investigation after a lawyer for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there was a contract on his head for defending the Israeli leader, the Paris prosecutor’s office said on Monday.
Olivier Pardo told investigators a former convict, Rudy Terranova, told him on July 16 that he had been approached to carry out a hit on the lawyer, a source close to the case said, confirming a report in the newspaper Le Parisien.
Terranova said he was approached to carry out the job while on a trip to Senegal by members of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, a key ally of Israel’s arch-foe Iran.
He said the terrorists targeted Pardo because of his work for Netanyahu, who has been the subject of an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) since November 2024, accused of crimes against humanity and war crimes over Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.
Pardo told AFP he was “calm, it’s one of the risks of my job when you defend causes which have sparked debate in France.”
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