Alleged attacker apologizes to Elie Wiesel

by ryan | August 14, 2007 at 01:50 pm

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This past May, Elie Wiesel was accosted by a man claiming we wanted to take Wiesel to his hotel room to interview him. It later emerged that there were some anti-semitic undercurrents to the attack. Wiesel emerged unharmed but shaken up. The attacker, Eric Hunt, has now publicly apologized in court.

A man charged with dragging Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel from a hotel elevator apologized in court to the Nobel laureate over the alleged anti-Semitic attack.

Eric Hunt, 23, has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, battery, stalking, elder abuse and hate crimes following the February incident at San Francisco's Argent Hotel.

So what did Hunt say...bascially, "I'm sorry."

"Mr. Wiesel, I'm sorry for scaring you and I'm sorry you experienced the Holocaust," Hunt said. "My grandfather fought the Nazis and I'm sorry about what happened."