Judicial information was opened on Monday in France after a complaint of a lawyer denouncing the possible existence of an assassination contract targeting him within the framework of his defense of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said the Paris prosecutor’s office.
The judicial information was opened against X for “association of criminals”, said the prosecution, denouncing the “violation of the secrecy of the investigation” and confirming information from the newspaper Le Parisien.
According to Le Parisien, Me Olivier Pardo revealed these facts after a man, Rudy Terranova, announced to him during an appointment to his cabinet on July 16 that he was commissioned to delete him, which confirmed a source close to the file.
This mission, which Rudy Terranova did not intend to execute, would have been entrusted to him during a stay in Senegal by “Lebanese Hezbollah”, reproaching the lawyer for being one of the defenders of Benjamin Netanyahu, targeted since November 2024 by an international arrest of the International Criminal Court (CPI) for Crimes against humanity and war crime.
The interview took place in the presence of two lawyers, a collaborator and an intern, who were heard by the investigators.
“I am serene, that is part of the risks of my job when we defend causes that in France are controversial,” reacted to AFP Me Pardo, also a lawyer for French Minister Rachida Dati and the far -right polemicist Éric Zemmour.
“I trust justice to determine whether this threat is real or whimsical,” he added.
Rudy Terranova was placed in police custody as part of this case the week of July 21, according to Le Parisien. AFP did not have confirmation of this information.
Mr. Terranova was the informant of a police commissioner in Versailles between 2006 and 2007, then ousted because of his dangerousness. A time suspected of being the author of the attempted assassination in 2007 of Karim Achoui, at the time a lawyer, he was acquitted.
Aged 47, he was sentenced in 2004 for violence related to his Islamist radicalization.
It was in prison, where he served a sentence in connection with organized crime, that he radicalized, according to Le Parisien.