Police said to be probing threatening WhatsApp messages by Netanyahu backers about AG

Police have opened an investigation into threatening WhatsApp messages made by supporters of Prime Minister Netanyahu about Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, Channel 13 news reports.

“We need 60 or 80 people to break past the security he [Mandelblit] has there. Get the dog outside, take him with us and negotiate,” a member of the WhatsApp group reportedly wrote. “It sounds delusional to you. I’m ready to go for it.”

The network says another user wrote that Mandelblit should be “given a field trial… like they did to Ceausescu and his wife,” referring to the communist dictator of Romania who was killed by a firing squad after he was deposed in 1989.

Mandelblit has received death threats since announcing last year he would indict Netanyahu in a series of graft cases, a decision the premier decried as an “attempted coup.”