Man suspected of planning Herzliya attack to be released

6 January 2016, 2:04 pm

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The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court decides not to extend the remand of an East Jerusalem man in his 20s suspected of planning to carry out a terror attack in Herzliya, north of Tel Aviv yesterday.

The suspect’s father reported to police that his son was going to carry out a suicide attack in the city, but the detainee claimed his father had filed a false complaint against because of a dispute between them.

According to reports, the suspect had a fight with his father before leaving his family home in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Tsur Baher.

Dozens of officers had combed the town, a Tel Aviv suburb, since the morning, when the suspect evaded a police checkpoint in Jerusalem. The car was later found abandoned in the center of Herzliya.