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UConn student arrested for antisemitic vandalism
Kristopher Pieper, 21, was charged with third-degree intimidation based on bigotry or bias and criminal mischief.
On March 27, following Shabbat and on the first night of Passover, the Nazi symbol was found spray-painted on the UConn chemistry building directly across the street from the school’s Hillel. Police launched an investigation and, according to an arrest warrant affidavit, after checking digital sources, including surveillance camera footage, wireless internet records and use of his student access card, Pieper was identified as a person of interest.
The act of vandalism was one of seven antisemitic incidents that took place on UConn’s Storrs campus this academic year, three of which occurred during Passover. Pieper is accused of one of the acts of vandalism: painting a swastika on the north side of the chemistry building facing the the Trachten-Zachs Hillel House.
UpdatedThu, Apr 29, 2021 at 8:29 pm ET
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UConn student Kristopher Pieper, 21, of Enfield. (UConn Police Department)
STORRS, CT A University of Connecticut student and Enfield resident was arrested Thursday on a warrant accusing him of spray-painting an anti-Semitic swastika on the college s chemistry building last month, according to the UConn Police Department.
Kristopher Pieper, 21, a junior majoring in anthropology and geographic information science, was charged with third-degree intimidation based on bigotry or bias, and third-degree criminal mischief.
On March 27 - the start of the Jewish holiday Passover - a graduate student walking on campus told UConn police she had seen a swastika on the chemistry building, directly across the street from the Hillel House, a foundation center for the Jewish community on campus. A second swastika was later discovered on a retaining wall of the Austin Building, less than 300 yards from the chemistry building, according to an affidav
A 21-year-old UConn student was arrested Thursday and charged with a hate crime one month after a swastika was found spray-painted on the side of a chemistry building on campus during Passover and directly across the street from UConn Hillel.
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