Keystone-SDA
The Israeli prosecutor’s office announced on Thursday the charge of a woman suspected of having “plotted in order to commit a terrorist act” with the intention of killing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to a statement from the Ministry of Justice.
(Keystone-ATS) “The State prosecution presented an indictment against a Tel Aviv resident, for attempted conspiracy to commit a terrorist act (murder with aggravating circumstances),” said the statement, adding that the suspect wanted to “kill the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu”.
The suspect whose name has not been authorized for publication is a woman “engaged in mobilization” against the government and knowing herself of an incurable disease, wanted to “sacrifice herself to” save the State of Israel “, according to the press release.
The prosecution asked the court to maintain the suspect assigned under house arrest because of its “dangerousness”.
His lawyer denies the intention to kill
She was arrested after a political activist she had contacted and to whom she had expressed her projects contacted a lawyer who alerted the security services, according to the press release.
The suspect lawyer, Giora Zylberstein, questioned on the private channel 12 said that her client did not have the intention of killing Mr. Netanyahu “.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in 1995 by an extremist Israeli, an event that sustainably traumatized Israeli society.
