The New Jersey man charged with dragging Holocaust scholar Elie Wiesel from a hotel elevator apologized in court today to the Nobel laureate over the attack. Eric Hunt, 22, has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted kidnapping, false imprisonment, battery, stalking, elder abuse and hate crimes following the February incident at San Francisco’s Argent Hotel – as reported HERE on YW.

Hunt raised a shaking hand and spoke up suddenly from his seat next to his lawyer just as Wiesel had finished describing his ordeal in Nazi death camps, where his parents and sister died. “Mr. Wiesel, I’m sorry for scaring you and I’m sorry you experienced the Holocaust,” Hunt said. “My grandfather fought the Nazis and I’m sorry about what happened.”

Wiesel did not respond but went on to describe the Feb. 1 incident.

(Source: Fox News)