American charged with attacking mosque, temple

American charged with attacking mosque, temple
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Summary 40-year-old man from New-York has been charged with hate crime.

He has been charged for throwing firebombs at four locations across the city, including a Hindu temple and a mosque, on New Year’s day this year.An indictment unsealed in Brooklyn federal court charges Ray Lazier Lengend, also known as ‘Suraj Poonai’, with hate crimes and explosives offenses stemming from his racially and religiously motivated fire-bombings of the Imam Al-Khoei Foundation mosque and a Hindu temple housed in a private residence in Queens on 1 January, 2012, US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Loretta Lynch said in a statement here.

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