Museum photos show the marble head of the goddess Athena knocked off its pedestal onto the floor, and a statue of a pagan deity shattered into fragments.
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An American tourist has been arrested after allegedly smashing two second-century Roman statues at the Israel Museum – with his lawyer claiming he was experiencing a mental disorder called “Jerusalem syndrome”.
Israeli police have said initial questioning suggests the Jewish-American suspect destroyed the statues in Jerusalem because he considered them to be “idolatrous and contrary to the Torah”.
The Torah is the compilation of the first five books of the Hebrew Bible.
Museum photos show the marble head of the goddess Athena knocked off its pedestal onto the floor and a statue of a pagan deity shattered into fragments.
The damaged statues were being restored, museum staff said.
Nick Kaufam, the suspect’s lawyer, has denied the man acted out of religious fanaticism.
Instead, Mr Kaufman said the 40-year-old tourist was suffering from a mental disorder that psychiatrists have labelled “Jerusalem syndrome”.
The condition – a form of disorientation believed to be induced by the religious magnetism of the city, which is sacred to Christians, Jews and Muslims – is said to cause foreign pilgrims to believe they are figures from the Bible.
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The defendant has been ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Officials did not release his name due to a gagging order.
The vandalism late on Thursday raised questions about the safety of Israel’s priceless collections and stirred concern about a rise in attacks on cultural heritage in Jerusalem.
The incident came to light after the police found the bodies of three girls, aged between nine and four years, from a trunk from inside their parents’ house in the locality during its search.
In a shocking incident, a “poverty-stricken” migrant labourer and his wife killed their three minor daughters and stuffed their bodies in a trunk in their house in Muqsudan locality of Punjab’s Jalandhar district, police said on Monday.
The incident came to light after the police found the bodies of three girls, aged between nine and four years, from a trunk from inside their parents’ house in the locality during its search.
The couple had on Sunday reported to police that their daughters, namely, Amrita, 9, Sakshi, 7, and Kanchan, 4, were missing since morning.
Accused Couple filed missing complaint
The police said that the couple had informed police that their daughters who were playing in the locality’s street had not returned till 11 pm on Sunday.
However, when the police started investigating, searched the locality and talked to people, it was learnt that the girls were at home only since morning and had not come out.
Getting suspicious, the police also got to know from CCTV footage that nowhere were the girls seen outside in the locality and hence, the searched inside the house and found the girls’ bodies stuffed inside a trunk.
A case has been filed by the police authorities and CCTV cameras installed in the showroom are being scanned thoroughly to gain evidence.
The thieves fled with all the gold and diamond ornaments leaving behind just the silver ones. Screengrab from ANI video
Jewelry worth Rs 20-25 crores was stolen from Umrao Singh Jewellery shop in Jangpura’s Bhogal locality in New Delhi.
The shocking incident took place in post-midnight on Monday, September 25.
“We closed the shop on Sunday and when we opened it on Tuesday after an off on Monday, we saw that there was dust in the whole shop and there was a hole in the wall of the strong room… We think they (thieves) have looted everything… There was jewellery worth around Rs 20-25 crores… They entered from the terrace… Everything is damaged including CCTV… An investigation is underway…,” said Sanjeev Jain, owner of the jewellery shop which was looted.
Initial reports and circulating social media videos indicate that the thieves gained access to the jewellery shop’s vault by creating holes in the walls.
The thieves fled with all the gold and diamond ornaments leaving behind just the silver ones.
Police reached the spot on Tuesday, 26 September when the theft came into light. An investigation into the case has been launched and is underway.
A case has been filed by the police authorities and CCTV cameras installed in the showroom are being scanned thoroughly to gain evidence.
Around 1am on Thursday, four men barged into houses of migrant labourers working at two fish farms on village outskirts, held them hostage at gunpoint before killing a woman and raping three others besides fleeing with ₹18,000, a mobile phone and ornaments
Panipat superintendent of police Ajit Singh Shekhawat said, “Two incidents were reported at two locations. At one spot, a man and his ailing wife were targeted and the woman died. While at another farm, three women were allegedly raped and ₹13,000 were robbed.” (iSTock)
The 45-year-old ailing wife of a migrant labourer was killed and three other women members of two families were raped when armed men targeted two fish farms on the outskirts of a village under Matlauda police station in Panipat district early on Thursday.
Police said the victims belonged to two families that worked at the fish farms of local farmers. The victims told the police that around 1am, four men carrying weapons barged into the first dera or farm house and targeted the couple.
They allegedly thrashed them, hit the woman on the chest and took away their mobile phone and ₹5,000.
“The accused were speaking Haryanvi and were carrying a pistol and a sword. They slapped me and hit my wife. She died few hours later”, alleged one of the victims.
The accused then allegedly hit another farm. According to the victims, they tied the hands of the male members and children and took the women into a room and raped them repeatedly, before robbing the house. They also thrashed a woman who resisted. The robbers locked the women in a room and fled with ₹13,000 and ornaments.
Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother, Faisal Malik, will appear in court in Guildford today.
Sara Sharif. Pic: AP
Three people have been charged with the murder of 10-year-old Sara Sharif.
Surrey Police said the Crown Prosecution Service authorised charges against Sara’s father, Urfan Sharif, 41, his partner, Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother, Faisal Malik, 28, all of Hammond Road, Woking.
They have also been charged with causing or allowing the death of a child.
All three will appear before magistrates in Guildford today.
They were arrested on Wednesday evening at Gatwick Airport as they disembarked a flight from Dubai.
In a statement, Surrey Police said: “Sara’s mother has been informed of this latest development and is being supported by specialist officers.”
Haryana Police arrested Monu Manesar for a provocative post on social media, but Rajasthan Police obtained transit remand in Nasir-Junaid murder case
Monu Manesar, from his Facebook page, now made private.
Bajrang Dal member and self-styled cow vigilante, Mohit alias Monu Manesar, was on September 12 arrested by the Nuh Police for an alleged provocative post on a social media platform ahead of a Hindu outfit’s Jalabhishek Yatra on August 28. The court remanded him to 14 days of judicial custody in this case, but the Rajasthan Police also arrested him in connection with the Nasir-Junaid murder case and took him on transit remand.
Nuh Superintendent of Police Narendra Bijarniya told The Hindu that Monu was arrested from Manesar market in Gurugram around 10.30 a.m. and a .45 bore pistol, a gun and three live cartridges were recovered from his possession.
A 32-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her husband in front of their children In Delhi’s Jafrabad are on Monday. The accused reportedly killed his wife as he suspected her of having an extra-marital affair.
Delhi Man Stabs Wife To Death In Front Of Children On Suspicion Of Infidelity; Arrested (Representational image)
In a shocking incident, a 32-year-old woman was stabbed to death by her husband in front of their children In Delhi’s Jafrabad are on Monday. The accused has been identified as Sajid. The accused reportedly killed his wife as he suspected her of having an extra-marital affair.
A quarrel erupted between the two over the issue. According to a report published in India Today, the accused attacked his wife Nisha in front of their two daughters. Sajid was arrested after the crime.
The elder daughter aged 11 years tried to intervene to save her mother but in vain. She sustained injuries on her hand. Nisha sustained multiple wounds on her neck, chest and hand, reported the media house.
In a shocking video of the assault, a man, allegedly the husband, is seen stripping the woman outside their home and parading her naked as she screamed for help.
Jaipur: A tribal woman was beaten, stripped naked, and paraded through her village in Rajasthan’s Pratapgarh district allegedly by her husband on Thursday the police said last night. In a shocking video of the assault, a man, allegedly the husband, is seen stripping the 21-year-old woman outside their home and parading her naked as she screamed for help.
According to the police, the woman was allegedly in a relationship with another man, which triggered the attack on her. A police officer said this morning that three people have been detained and some arrests are likely in a few hours.
Unhappy that she was living with another man despite being married, the woman’s in-laws allegedly kidnapped her and took her to their village where she was beaten and paraded naked, Rajasthan’s Director General of Police (DGP) Umesh Mishra said.
Six teams have been formed to arrest the accused and Pratapgarh’s Superintendent of Police Amit Kumar is camping in the village, the top cop said.
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot condemned the incident in a late-night tweet and said: “In Pratapgarh district, a video of a woman being stripped naked by her in-laws due to a family dispute with her in-laws has surfaced. The Director General of Police has been instructed to send the ADG Crime to the spot and take the strictest action in this matter. There is no place for such criminals in a civilized society. These criminals will be put behind bars as soon as possible and will be tried and punished in the fast track court.”
प्रतापगढ़ जिले में पीहर और ससुराल पक्ष के आपसी पारिवारिक विवाद में ससुराल पक्ष के लोगों द्वारा एक महिला को निर्वस्त्र करने का एक वीडियो सामने आया है।
पुलिस महानिदेशक को एडीजी क्राइम को मौके पर भेजने एवं इस मामले में कड़ी से कड़ी कार्रवाई के निर्देश दिए हैं।
In a scathing attack on the Chief Minister and other Congress Ministers of the state, BJP chief JP Nadda said the ruling party is “busy settling factional squabbles” – an apparent jab at the power tussle between Ashok Gehlot and his former deputy Sachin Pilot.
“The issue of women’s safety is being completely ignored in the state,” Mr Nadda said, adding, “The people of Rajasthan will teach the state government a lesson.” The state is scheduled to go to polls later this year.
“The video from Pratapgarh, Rajasthan, is shocking. What is worse is governance in Rajasthan is totally absent. The Chief Minister and Ministers are busy settling factional squabbles, and the remaining time is spent appeasing one dynasty in Delhi. It’s no wonder the issue of women’s safety is being completely ignored in the state. Every single day, there is an instance of harassment against women. The people of Rajasthan will teach the state government a lesson,” tweeted JP Nadda.
The 85-year-old victim, who was staying alone in a slum, alleged that a man barged into her living area around 4 am and raped her, the panel said.
The DCW has sought an action-taken report on the matter by September 5.
The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) on Friday issued a notice to the city police in connection with the alleged rape of an elderly woman in Shakurpur area here.
The 85-year-old victim, who was staying alone in a slum, alleged that a man barged into her living area around 4 am and raped her, the panel said.
“She has also informed that the accused punched her face, cut her lip with a blade and tried to strangulate her. There are injuries all over her body and private parts as well,” the panel said in its notice to the Deputy Commissioner of Police (Northwest) district.
The panel has sought a copy of the FIR registered in the matter along with the fact whether the police have a list of all the elderly people living alone in the district.
An Army soldier in Alaska is accused of fatally shooting his newlywed wife, stashing her body in a storm drain — then posting desperate Facebook messages about her disappearance and helping her mom search for her.
Heinous hubby Zarrius Hildabrand, 21, has been charged with raps including first-degree murder and tampering with evidence in the slaying of his spouse, Alaska National Guard combat medic Saria Hildabrand, also 21, the Anchorage Police Department said.
Hildabrand – who is a cannon crewmember assigned to the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team – reported Saria missing Monday evening, Aug. 7, KTUU reported.
She was then found dead from a gunshot wound to the left temple Thursday in a 4-by-5-foot storm drain near the couple’s Anchorage apartment, the Anchorage Daily News said, citing the police incident report.
“Updated information on my missing wife PLEASE SHARE AND REPOST!!!!!!” Hildabrand had written on Facebook on Wednesday night above a picture of his wife’s “missing” poster — the day before her body was discovered and fewer than 48 hours before his arrest.
Saria’s distraught mother, Meredith Barney, told the Anchorage Daily News on Friday, “He walked around for hours with me searching for my daughter knowing that she was dead.
“He lied to me multiple times and tried to play it off like he was a concerned husband.”
Zarrius Hildabrand, here with newlywed young wife Saria, has been charged with her murder. Facebook
When Hildabrand reported his wife missing Monday, he told police he and Saria returned home around 2 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 6, after celebrating his birthday downtown with friends, an incident report obtained by Law & Crime explained.
A neighbor later reported hearing a gunshot around 2:45 a.m. Sunday, KTUU said.
Hildabrand claimed that Saria, who worked with the Alaska National Guard, left between 9 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Aug. 6 for her second job at a local restaurant.
The suspect said his wife walked to work because both of them were hungover and did not feel well enough to drive, the report stated.
He also claimed that she left her phone in the apartment but took her purse and wallet.
A supposedly desperate Hildabrand shared Saria’s information on Facebook on Wednesday — several days after he allegedly killed her. Facebook
But in a separate interview, one of the couple’s friends told police that Saria mentioned she did not plan to work Aug. 6, the Anchorage Daily News said.
Hildabrand told police he “vegetated” at home while he believed his wife was at work, though he later backtracked and said he ran a few errands.
Hildabrand claimed he did not realize his wife was missing until he went to pick her up from work at 7 p.m. and learned she never arrived.
“Zarrius said that he had been searching for Saria ever since,” the complaint said. “Zarrius said that he had been to every friend’s house, called Saria’s parents, contacted all the hospitals, and jail.”
He finally contacted police 36 hours after Saria was last seen and told cops he was hoping he would track down his wife and “find [her disappearance] was a misunderstanding,” the document added.
After Saria was reported missing, her co-workers told officers that they received a text from her number at 10:45 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 6, saying she was calling off work.
Khalistani protestors protesting on Wednesday amid heavy barricading by the San Francisco Police officers. (For representation/Twitter)
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has now taken over the case of the national flag at the Indian high commission in London being pulled down during a protest by pro-Khalistan activists. The development comes nearly a month after the incident that took place on March 19.
The case was earlier registered with the Special Cell of the Delhi Police. The Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) had earlier given a nod to transfer the case to NIA. An FIR in connection with the protest staged by pro-Khalistani activists, was registered at the Special Cell of Delhi Police.
The case was registered after the Home Ministry asked Delhi Police to take legal action, an IANS report said. It was filed under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code, Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act and Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act and an investigation has been initiated in the case.
The British Deputy High Commissioner was also summoned by the Centre, demanding an explanation over the complete absence of security during the protest. The British High Commissioner to India, Alex Ellis had described the incident as “disgraceful” and “totally unacceptable”.
A Delhi woman who had suffered a miscarriage after her neighbour opened fire at her for objecting to loud music last week has succumbed to her injuries.
Following her death, the police have added Section 302 (murder) to the FIR. (Image for representation: Reuters)
The 30-year-old Delhi woman who suffered a miscarriage after being shot by her neighbour in northwest Delhi’s Siraspur last week succumbed to her injuries on Saturday, police told news agency PTI on Sunday.
The woman was shot as she had protested against the loud music being played by a DJ during a party at the neighbour’s house. The victim, identified as Ranju, was shot by her neighbor Harish on April 3.
According to a senior police officer, “The woman’s condition was stated to be critical. She was undergoing treatment at a city hospital. We received information from the hospital on Saturday that she had succumbed to her injuries”.
Following her death, the police have added Section 302 (murder) to the FIR, the police officer said.
A PCR call was received around 12:15 am on April 3 about a shooting incident in Siraspur. Upon arriving at the location, it was discovered that Ranju, a resident of Siraspur, had been admitted to Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh.
Doctors at the hospital stated that she had suffered a gunshot wound to her neck and was not in a condition to give a statement, as reported by Deputy Commissioner of Police (outer north) Ravi Kumar Singh.
NEW video shows two murder suspects, one only 12 years old, after they were arrested in a series of killings that left three teens dead.
Cops are searching for a third teen suspect after Layla Silvernail and Camille Quarles, both 16, and an unnamed 17-year-old male were killed in Ocklawaha, Florida, between March 30 and April 1.
Layla Silvernail, 16, was the first victim discovered by police on March 30Credit: gofundmeCamille Quarles, 16, was found inside Silvernail’s partially submerged car on April 1Credit: GoFundMeThe Marion County Sheriff’s Office shared footage of one suspect, 12-year-old Christopher Atkins, being escorted by cops after his arrestRobert Robinson, 17, is also in custody and Sheriff Billy Woods said all three suspects were members of a ‘wannabe’ gang that’s committed other crimes in the areaCredit: Marion County Sheriff’s Office
More information has been released about two suspects – Christopher Atkins, 12, and Robert Robinson, 17, – who were arrested by the Marion County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday night.
A third suspect, 16-year-old Tahj Brewton, remains at large and police are offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to his arrest.
After Atkins was taken into custody, police shared a video of the shirtless 12-year-old being escorted out of a building and into a squad car as he looked straight ahead.
The clip also shows Robinson, who appeared stoic and disheveled, being walked out of the building after his arrest.
“Each and every one of them in some shape way or form was associated with a gang,” Sheriff Billy Woods said at a press conference.
“There is no honor among thieves, and at some point, these three individuals turned on our three victims and murdered them.”
The suspects left behind significant evidence, Woods said, and were all members of a larger “wannabe gang” that has committed other crimes in the rural county between Orlando and Gainesville.
Investigators have yet to provide any other details about what led up to the killings, which sparked rumors of a serial killer in the small Florida town.
Russia’s “merchant of death” offered Donald Trump asylum in Russia this week, saying he believes the former president’s life is in danger if he remains in the United States.
In an interview on a Russian state-TV channel, Viktor Bout—an international arms dealer made infamous after his portrayal by Nicolas Cage in the 2005 film “Lord of War”—told a reporter he had sent a telegram to Trump warning him of an imminent threat to his life and urging him to flee to Russia for safety.
The threat against Trump’s life, Bout suggested, is not from an assassin or some unknown plot against him. Instead, he said, it comes from Trump’s own government and is a result of the Manhattan district attorney’s probe of allegations that Trump falsified business records to hide a hush money payment to former adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 election.
Trump was arraigned this week on 34 counts related to that charge. He has denied all wrongdoing in the case, as well as an affair that Daniels claims they had.
Viktor Bout, a convicted Russian arms dealer, said on Russian state TV that he sent a telegram to Donald Trump warning him of an imminent threat to his life and urging him to flee to Russia for safety. ALEXANDER NEMANOV/JOE RAEDLE/NEWSWEEK PHOTO ILLUSTRATION/GETTY IMAGES
“The legal process which has now begun in New York won’t just end in Donald Trump being convicted and barred from the [2024] election,” Bout said on the Russia-24 news channel.
“Most likely he will simply be eliminated there,” he continued. “Therefore, I think it’s in the best interests of all of humanity and primarily all of the American people to invite Donald Trump here, to Russia, to give him security and protection here so that he leads this uprising against the globalists and, most importantly, does not allow the elimination of the American people.”
Newsweek reached out by email to the Trump presidential campaign for comment.
The "merchant of death" Viktor Bout says he has sent a message to Donald Trump offering him political asylum in Russia
He warns that Trump's life is in danger in the US and calls on the ex-president to lead an "uprising against the globalists" from abroad pic.twitter.com/5C7KJcWom3
Bout made headlines internationally after he was party to a prisoner exchange between the United States and Russia for basketball star Brittney Griner this past December. She was sentenced to nine years in prison after being apprehended at a Russian airport and accused of possession of a small quantity of cannabis in her luggage. Authorities charged her with drug possession and smuggling.
Bout, by contrast, allegedly had familial connections at the very height of the Russian government and had attracted international scrutiny for his alleged crimes long before he was ever charged with anything.
He was eventually charged by U.S. officials in 2010 on allegations of lending material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations, conspiring to kill Americans abroad and conspiring to acquire and use an anti-aircraft missile, amid numerous other charges.
According to police reports, the girl has been missing since March 29, and her body parts were discovered on Saturday night in an abandoned home in the Mavli area.
The police said that the possibility of the nine-year-old girl being raped before the murder has not been proven yet. (Representative Image)
A man allegedly killed a nine-year-old girl, chopped her body into multiple pieces and stuffed them into plastic bags in Rajasthan’s Udaipur. The accused identified as Kamlesh, 20, who is a school dropout, has been interrogated in connection with the case.
The police said that the possibility of the nine-year-old girl being raped before the murder has not been proven yet.
According to police reports, the girl has been missing since March 29, and her body parts were discovered on Saturday night in an abandoned home in the Mavli area.
Three persons were killed and nine suffered burns after an unidentified person started a fire in a moving train at Kozhikode in Kerala late Sunday.
The incident took place on the Alappuzha – Kannur executive express train around 9.30 pm.
Three bodies, including that of a woman from Kannur district, a girl child aged around two and another person were found on the railway track. Eight who suffered burn injuries included women and children. Four of them suffered serious burns.
Some passengers in the train told a section of media that an unidentified person entered the D1 coach with two bottles of petrol-like liquid, poured it randomly on passengers and the train and set fire. As the fire spread, some passengers pulled the train’s chain and as the train stopped, the accused managed to escape. He was also suspected to have suffered burns. Passengers managed to put out the fire.
The passengers ran helter-skelter and it was suspected that the three died after jumping from the moving train. Their bodies were found by Monday early hours during a search on the track.
The quest for viral videos has hit a dangerous new low among so-called social media influencers in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh, as they have begun to use minors for clickbait content, often endangering their lives.
These #CarPrank videos have the same template. The driver gives lift to an unsuspecting minor (mostly boys), develops familiarity with him, then tells him that he is being kidnapped. The child, in most cases, tries to open the car door and flee, but is prevented physically or through auto lock of the car. The child is scared with fake syringes, drugs and in other ways to evoke a dramatic reaction.
The footage is recorded on a dashcam fitted inside the car and later edited with emotive music and popular memes to elicit laughs.
Some of these videos have more than 5 lakh views on YouTube and over 60 lakh views on Instagram. TOI made several attempts to reach these vloggers, but did not get a response.
The videos usually end with an “educational message”, warning children against taking lifts from strangers, ostensibly to absolve the makers of the accountability of making a dangerous prank. None of the videos mention if consent of the parents was taken prior to making the reels.
One of the most popular videos, which went viral before being removed from YouTube for violating guidelines, is from a channel called ‘Rider Salman’ with more than 68,000 subscribers. In the video, the driver gives a lift to a boy aged around 12 and then calls up someone and informs them that a boy has been found and “looks good”.
The driver’s friends sitting in the backseat take out a syringe. The scared child pleads them to stop and then tries to jump from a moving vehicle, screaming for help. Though removed from YouTube, clippings continue to remain viral on Instagram.
TOI scanned through the video sharing platform and found more than 15 similar videos, with views ranging from 50,000 to 5 lakh.
The vloggers are in constant pursuit of bizarre elements. For instance, a video by channel ‘Kakinada Prankster’ has a shot of lifting the shirt of a teenage boy, who was offered lift. The driver talks of “de-sexing” the terrified boy and pushing him into sex trafficking and begging.
