NEW YORK (AP) — A twin U.S.-German citizen has been arrested on costs that he traveled to Israel and tried to firebomb the department workplace of the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, officers mentioned Sunday.
Federal prosecutors in New York mentioned the person, Joseph Neumeyer, walked as much as the embassy constructing on Might 19 with a backpack containing Molotov cocktails however received right into a confrontation with a guard and finally ran away, dropping his backpack because the guard tried to seize him.
Regulation enforcement then tracked Neumeyer right down to a lodge a couple of blocks away from the embassy and arrested him, based on a prison grievance filed within the Japanese District of New York.
The assault occurred towards the backdrop of Israel’s warfare in Gaza, now in its nineteenth month.
Neumeyer, 28, who’s initially from Colorado and has twin U.S. and German citizenship, had traveled from the U.S. to Canada in early February after which arrived in Israel in late April, based on courtroom information. He had made a sequence of threatening social media posts earlier than making an attempt the assault, prosecutors mentioned.
Israeli officers deported Neumeyer to New York on Saturday and he had an preliminary courtroom look earlier than a federal choose in Brooklyn on Sunday, the identical day his prison grievance was unsealed.
Neumeyer’s court-appointed lawyer Jeff Dahlberg declined to remark.
Throughout his first time period, President Donald Trump acknowledged Jerusalem as Israel’s capital regardless of Palestinian objections and moved the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to the contested metropolis.