Suspected attacker of Wiesel is arrested
A man accused of roughing up Nobel laureate and Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel at a San Francisco hotel earlier this month was arrested Saturday, authorities said.
Police in Montgomery Township, N.J., arrested Eric Hunt, 22, of Sussex County, N.J., at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. He faces charges that include attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, elder abuse, stalking, battery and the commission of a hate crime, according to San Francisco police.
Wiesel, 78, was a featured speaker at a Feb. 1 peace forum at the Argent Hotel in San Francisco. He was approached in the lobby by a man in his 20s who then accosted him in an elevator, police said.
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