Sunday, July 29, 2007

அமெரிக்கா:குரானை கழிப்பறையில் எறிந்ததற்காக ஒரு மாணவர் கைது

மன்ஹாட்டன் பேஸ் பல்கலைகழத்தின் கழிப்பறையில் பத்துமாதங்களுக்கு முன்னர் குரான் வீசி எறியப்பட்டிருந்தது தற்போது துப்பு துலங்கியிருக்கிறது.

உக்ரேன் நாட்டைச் சேர்ந்த ஸ்டானிஸ்லாவ் என்ற மாணவர் இவ்வாறு செய்திருக்கிறார் என்பதை விடியோ கேமரா பதிவுகளை ஆராய்ந்து கண்டுபிடித்துள்ளனர்.


Student nabbed in Koran dunk
BY KERRY BURKE and MICHAEL WHITE
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Saturday, July 28th 2007, 4:00 AM

The 10-month-old mystery of who threw the Koran into the toilets at Pace University's Manhattan campus was solved yesterday with the arrest of a student, cops said.

Stanislav Shmulevich, 23, was confronted by detectives with a surveillance photo of himself leaving a Pace meditation room where the Muslim holy books were stored, police sources said.

He made "admitting statements" after seeing the photograph, a source said.

The suspect's roommate in Gravesend, Brooklyn, said she was stunned by the charges.

"It's impossible. He was defending the Koran," said Ola Petrovich, 24, an online saleswoman. "We had that conversation. He said, 'Don't criticize the Koran if you haven't read it.'

"Why would he do something so stupid?"

Shmulevich is suspected in two bias incidents at the school last fall.

On Oct. 13, a teacher discovered a paperback Koran in a toilet in a second-floor bathroom. On Nov. 21, a student found a submerged Koran in the same bathroom, cops said.

The suspect is a Ukrainian immigrant who moved to the U.S. as a boy. He's been splitting time between his Brooklyn flat and his parents' Staten Island home, and works at a European banking firm, Petrovich said.

Shmulevich was a senior at the university when he took "a break" only a few credits shy of a degree in international business, the roommate said.

"He read the Koran," she continued. "He was telling me, 'You should read it.' He's Jewish, but he's theologically sound. Both his parents are ballistic over this."

The suspect's father, Edward Shmulevich, 55, said he hadn't spoken to his son yet about the charges.

"He's a good son," the father said. "He's a hard worker and he's about to graduate from college. He works full time at night and then he goes to school. I'm surprised, utterly surprised. I don't know what happened."

Shmulevich was awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on hate crime charges for criminal mischief and aggravated harassment, officials said.

kburke@nydailynews.com

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