Police storm Warsaw hotel room, free three captive Jewish teens
I have taken this story mostly from Haaretz the Israeli news site, with additional information from The Jerusalem Post
Police stormed a hotel room in Warsaw Monday, after a Kuwaiti man identified as Mohammad A. and claiming he had a bomb, briefly held captive three Jewish teenagers, who were staying there for Holocaust commemoration ceremonies, police said.
The three Brazilians - originally identified as Israelis - were pulled into a sixth-floor room of Warsaw's Holiday Inn after 9 A.M. by the 23-year-old suspect, said police spokesman Mariusz Sokolowski.
Police broke into the room just before 10 A.M. and took the suspect into custody without incident, Sokolowski said. None of the captives was harmed, and police found no explosives.
It was not immediately clear what the suspect sought, but David Peleg, Israel's ambassador to Poland, said he had been informed the man was intoxicated.
"As far as we know at this stage ... a man was behaving wildly on the ground floor of the Holiday Inn hotel in central Warsaw, he was apparently drunk," Peleg told Israel Radio.
He took refuge in one of the rooms where there were three Brazilian Jewish youths, who were taking part in The March of The Living commemoration at the former Auschwitz death camp.
In Warsaw, Israeli Embassy spokesman Michal Sobelman confirmed the Jewish
youths were from Brazil.
Posted on 6:19 AM by Esmerelda Weatherwax
Comments
6 May 2008
Johnny
I'de recommend getting rid the the ambassador, his son AND the Kuwaiti embassy.
My guess as to the media's take on this?
'Twas all the fault of the alcohol and NOT Islam.
6 May 2008
Special Guest
A slight variation on the usual "lone deranged individual who just coincidentally is Muslim", to "lone intoxicated individual who just coincidentally is Muslim".
So were the Jewish teens male or female? Three healthy teens should have little problem overpowering a lone male who is too inebriated to be interviewed by police; presumably he'd have a hard time standing up without holding on to something.
Another msm story that leaves you wondering what really happened.
8 May 2008
Esmerelda Weatherwax
I believe the boys were aged about 15/16 and that the sozzled scion of the Kuwaiti diplomatic (should that be dipsomanic?) corps was overpowered within minutes, although whether by the boys themselves or the police I don't know.
The original confusion over the nationality of the boys (first described as israelis, later found to be Brazillian citizens of Jewish religion) seems to have occured because an Israeli party were in the same hotel, for the same commemoration, and the Brazillian boys were intending to travel on to Israel afterwards.
