Post by Jaga on May 6, 2008 13:02:56 GMT -7
Intoxicated son of Kuwaiti's ambassador to Poland charged in abduction
WARSAW, Poland - Polish authorities have charged the son of Kuwait's ambassador with briefly abducting three Brazilian teenagers and claiming he had a bomb during a subsequent standoff with authorities.
Officials say Ambassador Khaled Al-Shaibani's 23-year-old son, Mohammad, faces a suspended sentence of 10 months to three years.
The suspect is identified in police documents only as Mohammad A., but the Kuwaiti Embassy confirms he is the ambassador's son. The man has being released pending a court hearing, although no date has been set.
Police say a heavily intoxicated man force three 16-year-old Brazilians into a sixth-floor room at Warsaw's Holiday Inn sometime around 9 a.m. Monday.
Witnesses alerted hotel guards, who rushed to the site, but called police when the Kuwaiti said he had explosives.
Agents stormed the room just before 10 a.m. and took the suspect into custody without incident. None of the captives was harmed and no explosives were found.
Al-Shaibani was too intoxicated to undergo questioning Monday, police said, but the suspect spoke with authorities Tuesday morning.
The three teenagers were among about 10,000 people from around the world, most of them Jewish, who are in Poland to take part in the March of the Living on May 1.
The annual event at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau honours the memory of some six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
At least 1.1 million people, including Jews, Poles and Roma, perished in the camp's gas chambers or from starvation, disease and forced labour. The camp was liberated in January 1945 by Soviet troops.
WARSAW, Poland - Polish authorities have charged the son of Kuwait's ambassador with briefly abducting three Brazilian teenagers and claiming he had a bomb during a subsequent standoff with authorities.
Officials say Ambassador Khaled Al-Shaibani's 23-year-old son, Mohammad, faces a suspended sentence of 10 months to three years.
The suspect is identified in police documents only as Mohammad A., but the Kuwaiti Embassy confirms he is the ambassador's son. The man has being released pending a court hearing, although no date has been set.
Police say a heavily intoxicated man force three 16-year-old Brazilians into a sixth-floor room at Warsaw's Holiday Inn sometime around 9 a.m. Monday.
Witnesses alerted hotel guards, who rushed to the site, but called police when the Kuwaiti said he had explosives.
Agents stormed the room just before 10 a.m. and took the suspect into custody without incident. None of the captives was harmed and no explosives were found.
Al-Shaibani was too intoxicated to undergo questioning Monday, police said, but the suspect spoke with authorities Tuesday morning.
The three teenagers were among about 10,000 people from around the world, most of them Jewish, who are in Poland to take part in the March of the Living on May 1.
The annual event at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau honours the memory of some six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
At least 1.1 million people, including Jews, Poles and Roma, perished in the camp's gas chambers or from starvation, disease and forced labour. The camp was liberated in January 1945 by Soviet troops.