FDNY: vandal arrested for scrawling swastikas on firehouse

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Updated 2:30 pm CDT, Saturday, September 1, 2018

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a man has been arrested for vandalizing a New York City firehouse and several ambulances with swastikas and hateful language.

City fire marshals arrested 42-year-old Jem Ibrahimov on Saturday after he allegedly returned to the scene of the crime.

A Fire Department spokesman says on Facebook that Ibrahimov was arrested by fire marshals who caught him in the act while they were staking out an upper Manhattan firehouse that had been vandalized twice before. The firehouse had been hit with graffiti that included swastikas and the words "Nazi rapist pigs."

Authorities believe Ibrahimov also scrawled graffiti on at least six ambulances.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/FDNY-vandal-arrested-for-scrawling-swastikas-on-13199125.php

[shenmue]

1. What a nut

[Honeycombe8]

2. "Ibrahimov"? Sounds Middle Eastern? But he was drawing swastikas? And "Nazi rapist pigs"?

Makes no sense. Anyway, what a wasted life he must have, for a 42 year old grown man to be doing graffiti of any sort, much less hate graffiti.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. No.

[DURHAM D]

4. Here you go -

https://www.ancientfaces.com/surname/ibrahimovic-family-history/396470

[Honeycombe8]

5. Hungarian name? Serbian? His messages don't make sense.

First he draws swastikas. Then he writes anti-Nazi slurs.

Maybe he has a mental issue.

[sfwriter]

8. The Russian goal is to sow discord.

Sounds like something their agent would do.

[Nitram]

6. Ibrahimov doesn't sound at all Middle-Eastern. Actually sounds like Eastern European or Russian

Jewish. He may be accusing the fire department of being fascist?

[Honeycombe8]

11. I see. That makes more sense. Still, a 42 year old man should have better things to do w/his time.

Maybe he's unemployed.

[Nitram]

14. Oh, I don't doubt that he has mental issues.

I just don't think his name sounds more Jewish than Muslim.

[Honeycombe8]

15. The name is Hungarian or Serbian. I looked it up.

But doing graffiti is pretty juvenile and doesn't accomplish anything about a problem. That's why I think he may be unemployed and/or have mental issues. He's a middle aged man and would know that there are real ways to work on a problem. And it punishes the owner of the property (the city), rather than the actual people he's complaining about. Meaning HIS taxes will have to go to repair or clean up the damage, if that's possible. Graffitti doesn't do anything about problems. That's what teenagers do. Just my opinion.

[Wolf Frankula]

7. My online searches indicate it is Azeri.

It is a semi Russified Islamic name as used in Central Asia.

Wolf

[Honeycombe8]

12. It sounded M.E. to me (close to Abraham, Ibrahim, etc.). But I found that it's Hungarian

or Serbian. That's close to Russian.

[dalton99a]

9. He worked as official photographer for the Bulgarian National Assembly

https://heavy.com/news/2018/09/jem-ibrahimov/

[Godsuki]

10. Trump supporter

Put it in the bank.

[Initech]

13. Just another day in Trump's America.