The Israeli authorities announced Thursday, December 24 the arrest of a Palestinian and several of his suspected accomplices. They are suspected of the murder earlier this week of a Franco-Israeli near an Israeli settlement in the West Bank. The body of Esther Horgen, 52, a mother of six, was found on Monday, December 21, bearing beatings, in a forest near the small Israeli settlement of Tal Menashe.
Israeli authorities have opened an investigation after reports that the 50-year-old was beaten to death after going out on Sunday for a jog in a forest not far from her home.
After the investigation carried out by various Israeli security services, a man “Suspected of being involved in the murder of Esther Horgen (…) has been arrested “ Thursday, according to a statement from Shin Beth, the Israeli internal security service. This is a “Palestinian from the Jenin region”, in the northern West Bank, whose interrogation by the Shin Beth was continuing.
Hours later, the IDF said in a statement that “Several other suspects” suspected of complicity in the murder had been arrested in the area of the city of Jenin for questioning. The Israeli authorities favor the nationalist track, in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to explain the murder.
“Heinous crime”
“The army and security forces will find all terrorists and eradicate terrorism wherever and whenever it raises its head”Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz wrote on Twitter on Thursday after the main suspect was arrested. The Israeli army announced on Tuesday that it was sending reinforcements to the West Bank amid rising tensions following the murder of Esther Horgen.
Hundreds of people attended the funeral of this Franco-Israeli, born Brigitte Attelan and who had grown up in Fontenay-aux-Roses (Hauts-de-Seine) on Tuesday, before moving to Israel about thirty years ago. years.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday promised that Israel “Settle accounts” with his murderer. The murder was also condemned by the French foreign ministry, which denounced a “Heinous crime”. “France condemns in the strongest terms the murder of a French national in the West Bank”, the ministry said earlier this week.
