Courtesy of WNBC
Ivaylo Ivanov is suspected of
anti-Jewish vandalism.
Posted on 01/22/2008 4:13:05 AM PST by Pharmboy
Courtesy of WNBC
Ivaylo Ivanov is suspected of
anti-Jewish vandalism.
It all happened in less than three hours on a cool September night — a prolific spurt of anti-Jewish vandalism at more than a dozen locations in the heart of Brooklyn Heights.
On Monday, the police caught a break, arresting a man who they said had a trove of weapons inside a stately apartment building in the neighborhood. The man, Ivaylo Ivanov, admitted under videotaped questioning that he was behind the spree, which had mystified investigators for months, the police said.
And later Monday evening, after Mr. Ivanov’s arraignment in Brooklyn Criminal Court, his lawyer surprised reporters with his own announcement: Mr. Ivanov is himself Jewish.
The revelation was the latest twist in a bizarre story that features a man who, police said, shot his own finger; a sizable weapons collection, including pipe bombs and a sawed-off shotgun, found in an apartment in one of Brooklyn’s most exclusive neighborhoods; and a prominent H.I.V./AIDS researcher and medical anthropologist, who owns the apartment.
The hate crimes had unsettled local residents, many of whom awoke on the morning of Sept. 25 to find swastikas and other slurs scratched, scrawled and spray-painted on cars, playgrounds, synagogues and building facades. Crude fliers reading “Kill All Jews” were strewn about.
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Strange ping...
clinton supporter...
I think the stormfront types are backing Don Quixote, err, Ron Paul.
Thanks...
As a matter of fact, as I was driving in to work this morning I shot my own finger at a guy who cut me off. He then shot his own finger back at me!
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Those were the days!!
That makes me miss New Joisey. That and the great food.
Alas ... that what happens when you go into exile. ;)
You’re welcome Pharmboy.
Was that a registered or an unregistered finger? BATF wants to know.
Is a trove bigger than an arsenal? Or is it the pipe bombs that differentiates a trove from an arsenal?
We are lucky they got this guy.
All good points, friend.
The eeeevil gun I saw in the Post was a plastic toy with a fake silencer.
What’s a professor doing acting like this? Imagine what he taught the students!
*I could not tell the barrel length from the picture, could have been 18.
"I'm shocked!"
It could be, but while others appeared to have been doing these types of things to themselves or others of shared ethnicity for sympathy, this guy may very well have been sincere...and crazy.
I knew a kid of the Jewish persuasion when I was younger who used to wear a swastika t-shirt to “piss people off.” A very strange guy...
ANYone who wears a Swastika is a bit strange...if you’re Jew and wear one...oh well, what can one say?
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