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02-04-2010, 12:32 PM #11Originally Posted by RatbstardJoin our efforts to Secure America's Borders and End Illegal Immigration by Joining ALIPAC's E-Mail Alerts network (CLICK HERE)
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02-02-2012, 05:19 PM #14
Most Americans would prefer illegal aliens like this deported to the other side of a secured border BEFORE they kill people in America. Obama only wants to deport them AFTER they kill people in America.
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03-13-2013, 02:50 PM #15
Jury Finds Tenant Guilty of Setting Deadly Fire at a Crowded Brooklyn Tenement in 201
Jury Finds Tenant Guilty of Setting Deadly Fire at a Crowded Brooklyn Tenement in 2010
By MOSI SECRET
Published: March 12, 2013
A Guatemalan immigrant from Brooklyn was convicted on Tuesday of murder, arson and assault for starting a fire in a crowded tenement three years ago that killed five other Guatemalan immigrants in one of the deadliest New York City blazes in years.
The defendant, Daniel Ignacio, 31, sat motionless as the jury foreman read the verdict, looking straight ahead as an interpreter spoke in Spanish from behind his left shoulder. Guilty on all 16 counts. He faces 25 years to life in prison when he is sentenced on April 4.
The fire was one of several in recent years to highlight the dangers of illegally subdivided apartments: most of the victims died because they were trapped in rooms without exits. The devastation was felt most deeply among Guatemalans in Brooklyn, many of whom work low-paying jobs in manual labor to support their families back home.
Three of the men who died were married to three sisters from a mountain village in western Guatemala.
Another man, Miguel Chan, lost his wife in the fire and showed up every day during the weeklong trial, vowing to see the conclusion of a case that changed his life forever. On the night of the fire, Mr. Chan placed his infant daughter into a car seat and dropped her from a window, but she fell out of the seat when it hit the ground and suffered permanent brain damage. He passed his 2-year-old son out of the window, but he could not save his wife.
Mr. Chan rejoiced at the verdict. “Today it’s good news for everyone,” he said.
Mr. Ignacio, who lived on the second floor of the building, at 2033 86th Street in Bensonhurst, arrived home early in the morning hours of Jan. 30, 2010, according to evidence presented during the trial. The prosecution showed surveillance video footage of him pacing in front of the building, idling away the time, punching numbers on his cellphone.
In one frame of the footage, Mr. Ignacio came into view with a white tissue in his hand before ducking into the building. Prosecutors said he doused the tissue in paint thinner, ignited it and tossed it in a baby stroller that was in the vestibule, and then, in an act prosecutors were unable to explain, he retired to his room to go to sleep.
The footage showed smoke billowing from the windows minutes later, then people shrouded in blankets escaping out of the building into the frigid air — some from a door on the ground floor, some from windows higher up. Among those who escaped was Mr. Ignacio.
During questioning by police detectives shortly after the fire, Mr. Ignacio said that he had been drunk and had set the fire because “demons or devils” made him do it.
During closing arguments on Tuesday in State Supreme Court in Brooklyn, a lawyer for Mr. Ignacio did not dispute that he had started the fire but said Mr. Ignacio had never intended to hurt anyone. “He does this act, sets it on fire and goes to sleep,” said the lawyer, Danielle V. Eaddy. “Who does that?”
“There is no motive,” Ms. Eaddy said.
But the prosecutor, Howard Jackson, said it did not matter what Mr. Ignacio’s intentions were.
“This was a tragedy that, but for the actions of one man, this never would have happened,” Mr. Jackson said. “This was one man that made a decision for whatever reason that he was going to start a fire in that hallway. He was going to start a fire in that baby carriage.”
“The fact that he went upstairs and went to bed is not relevant,” Mr. Jackson said.
The jury deliberations took less than an hour.
The landlords of the building, Vasilios Gerazounis, 69, and his son, Argyrios Gerazounis, still face manslaughter charges in connection with the fire. The Brooklyn district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, said the men knew that the illegally subdivided apartments lacked the required exits and that they shared responsibility for the deaths.
In the building, one-bedroom apartments were divided to house two families and two-bedroom apartments were split up to house four.
Some of the apartments did not have two means of exit, as required by the city’s building code. In an apartment where three of the victims died, there were no windows, leaving the occupants with no way to escape when the building’s main stairway collapsed.
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