Charles Armani, Brooklyn man arrested in stabbing of jewish man, Elias Rosner outside Crown Heights synagogue amid a rise of anti-semitism and intense debate as to how to negotiate hate crime.
A Brooklyn man alleged to have stabbed an Orthodox Jewish man while leaving a Crown Heights synagogue last week was on Monday arrested.
Charles Armani, 23, was booked on hate crime charges for allegedly knifing 35-year-old Elias Rosner outside a Lubavitch Hasidic temple in Crown Heights on Dec. 16.
Rosner alleged Armani ranting about how he was ‘going to kill a Jew today’ along with other alleged anti-semitic rants while brandishing a knife.
‘I’m going to kill Jewish people, I’m going to kill a Jew today, I don’t give a f–k … We wouldn’t be in this mess if the Holocaust had happened,’ the unhinged man ranted, according to Rosner.
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The victim said he was the only one who ‘had the bravery to look him in the eye.’
At some point, Armani allegedly darted towards Rosner and stabbed him once in the chest, just missing his heart. He was treated at Kings County Hospital and released a day after the attack.
Posted the American Jewish Committee in part following the attack, ‘… a Jewish man was stabbed in Crown Heights by a man shouting “F*** the Jews” while praising the Holocaust. This incident is not isolated. It is part of a global surge in antisemitism that demands urgent attention and action. Words of condemnation are not enough. Jewish communities deserve safety, accountability, and leadership that treats antisemitism with the seriousness it requires.’
Armani was charged with attempted assault, assault, aggravated harassment and menacing, all as a hate crime, the nypost reported, citing the NYPD.
The assault happened just three days after the Bondi Beach mass stabbing in Sydney, Australia targeting Jewish congregants during Hanukkah celebrations that left 15 dead, and up to 40 injured and intense debate as to the causes of anti-semitism and how to arrest it.
