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| By: israelinsider staff and partners |
| Published: February 18, 2007 |
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New Jersey police have arrested a man suspected of accosting Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel in the elevator of a San Francisco hotel earlier this month.
Wiesel, 78, was attending the World Forum, an interfaith conference on nonviolent conflict resolution, when he was accosted on February 1 at the Argent Hotel, according to police. The suspect got into an elevator with Wiesel and insisted he accompany him to his room for an interview. At the sixth floor, the suspect forced the author into the corridor and ran away when Wiesel began to yell, the authorities said.
In a February 6 posting on an anti-Semitic web site, a man who denies the Holocaust and who gave his name as "Eric Hunt" explained that he confronted Wiesel in order to "bring [him] to my hotel room where he would truthfully answer my questions regarding the fact that his nonfiction Holocaust memoir, 'Night,' is almost entirely fictitious," the writer said.
Hunt, 22, was arrested without incident at the Carrier Clinic, a substance abuse treatment center, where Hunt was a patient. He was being sought on charges of attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, elder abuse, stalking, battery and the commission of a hate crime against Wiesel, according to the warrant issued by San Francisco police on Friday.
Ynetnews contributed to this article. |
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