Polish authorities charged the Kuwaiti ambassador's son Tuesday with holding three Jewish teenagers at a hotel while intoxicated and claiming he had a bomb, Warsaw police spokeswoman Anna Kedzierzawska said.
Reports from Poland
Report: Attack on Jewish youths in Warsaw foiled / Ynet reporters
Initial report reveals at least one Arab man takes over hotel room housing three Jewish youths in Warsaw's Holiday Inn. Local security forces overpower attacker, release hostages unharmed
The 23-year old son of Ambassador Khaled Al-Shaibani, identified only as Mohammad A., was charged with holding the teenagers against their will. Kedzierzawska said the suspect has confessed and faces a suspended sentence of 10 months to three years.
Prosecutors were questioning the suspect and were to decide later Tuesday whether to release him or keep him under arrest pending a court hearing. No date has been set for the hearing. The Kuwaiti Embassy confirmed the suspect was Ambassador Khaled Al-Shaibani's son, but declined further comment.
On Monday morning, police said a heavily intoxicated Mohammad A. pulled the three 16-year old Brazilians into their sixth-floor room of Warsaw's Holiday Inn. Witnesses alerted hotel guards, who rushed to the site and later called police when the Kuwaiti said he had explosives.
Agents stormed the room and captured the suspect without incident. None of the hostages were harmed and no explosives were found. Mohammad A. was too intoxicated to undergo questioning Monday, police said, but spoke with authorities on Tuesday.
The three teenagers were among about 10,000 people from around the world who came to Poland in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, in order to take part in the March of the Living.
The march was held last Thursday at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
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