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SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Nobel laureate and Holocaust scholar Elie
Wiesel was dragged from an elevator and roughed up during a peace conference
at a San Francisco hotel last week, police said Friday. The author was not
injured.
The assailant approached Wiesel in an elevator February 1 at the Argent
Hotel and requested an interview, police Sgt. Neville Gittens said.
When Wiesel consented to talk in the hotel's lobby, the man insisted it be
done in a hotel room and dragged the 78-year-old off the elevator on the
sixth floor, Gittens said.
The assailant fled after Wiesel began to scream, and Wiesel went to the
lobby and called police.
Gittens said police are investigating the incident as a crime. He said
investigators were aware of a posting at an anti-Semitic Web site in which a
man claimed responsibility for the attack, but declined to comment further.
Wiesel couldn't be immediately reached for comment at Boston University,
where he teaches, or through his institute in New York.
Wiesel, who survived the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during
World War II, has worked for human rights in many parts of the world and was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
Wiesel was dragged from an elevator and roughed up during a peace conference
at a San Francisco hotel last week, police said Friday. The author was not
injured.
The assailant approached Wiesel in an elevator February 1 at the Argent
Hotel and requested an interview, police Sgt. Neville Gittens said.
When Wiesel consented to talk in the hotel's lobby, the man insisted it be
done in a hotel room and dragged the 78-year-old off the elevator on the
sixth floor, Gittens said.
The assailant fled after Wiesel began to scream, and Wiesel went to the
lobby and called police.
Gittens said police are investigating the incident as a crime. He said
investigators were aware of a posting at an anti-Semitic Web site in which a
man claimed responsibility for the attack, but declined to comment further.
Wiesel couldn't be immediately reached for comment at Boston University,
where he teaches, or through his institute in New York.
Wiesel, who survived the Nazi death camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald during
World War II, has worked for human rights in many parts of the world and was
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.