A court of the State of Illinois, in the United States, sentenced Joseph Czuba, 73, on Friday, aged 53 years in prison for a crime motivated by hatred committed in 2023, in which a six-year Palestinian-American boy, Wadee Alfayoumi, was killed, the American media reported.
During the attack, Wadee’s mother Hanan Shaheen was also stabbed.
Czuba was found guilty of first -degree murder, attempted murder, serious violence and crime motivated by hatred, after having attacked this Palestinian family followed by Hamas against Israel on October 7, 2023, according to NBC News.
The mother of the murdered boy testified that Czuba had said to him: “Your people kills Jews and babies in Israel” and that “Muslims are not welcome” at home.
Odious crime
-The only witness to the accusation was Wadee’s cousin, Mahmoud Yousef, who said that the child’s death had destroyed the dreams and hopes of the whole family. “Whatever award, it’s not justice,” he said.
Czuba refused to express themselves during the sentence statement.
He was found guilty of having fatally stabbed the child on October 14, 2023 in Plainfield, 64 kilometers southwest of Chicago. The crime took place in his house, where the victim family rented two rooms.
The prosecution stressed that Czuba had targeted the family because of their Islamic faith and in reaction to the Israeli war against Gaza, which had started a week earlier.
Former United States President Joe Biden had commemorated last year the birthday of this crime which he had described as “heinous”.
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