Police said Tuesday that they arrested three more suspects in connection with the suspected murder of a teenage boy and the unsolved murder of a man in the 1980s and 1990s connected to the extremist Shuvu Bonim sect.
The three newly arrested suspects, who brought the total number of arrests in the case to six, are all in their 60s — two residents of Jerusalem and one of Haifa.
According to Hebrew media reports, one of those arrested was the son of a former senior government minister.
A second detainee was the husband of a woman who has told police she was forced by sect members to lure one of the victims to a specific location. The woman was one of three suspects arrested on Sunday in connection with the case. An attorney for the woman has said that her client was a victim of the extremist sect, and is cooperating with police in order to see justice done.
The three newly arrested suspects later appeared in court, which ordered that two of them remain in custody for six days. The third suspect was released to house arrest for a period of five days.
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{Matzav.com}
