Activists sit in entrance of the U.S. Embassy department workplace in Tel Aviv, Israel, throughout a protest on Jan. 8, 2025.
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NEW YORK — 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 stated Sunday.
Federal prosecutors in New York stated the person, Joseph Neumeyer, walked as much as the embassy constructing on Might 19 with a backpack containing Molotov cocktails however bought 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 all the way down to a lodge just a few blocks away from the embassy and arrested him, in accordance with a felony criticism filed within the Jap District of New York.
The assault happened towards the backdrop of Israel’s conflict 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, in accordance with court docket data. He had made a collection of threatening social media posts earlier than making an attempt the assault, prosecutors stated.
Israeli officers deported Neumeyer to New York on Saturday and he had an preliminary court docket look earlier than a federal choose in Brooklyn on Sunday, the identical day his felony criticism was unsealed.
Neumeyer’s court-appointed legal professional 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.
