The French prosecution has opened an investigation regarding a complaint filed by attorney Olivier Pardo, who represented Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in France concerning the arrest warrants issued against him by the International Criminal Court in The Hague, on suspicion that the lawyer received threats about a plan to assassinate him. The prosecution office stated that the judicial investigation was opened against unknown persons for "criminal conspiracy." According to the French newspaper "Le Parisien," which revealed the information, Pardo reported the alleged plan when a man named Rudi Tranova told him during a meeting at his office on July 16 that "Lebanese from Hezbollah" had tasked him to suppress him during his stay in Senegal.