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PAGE 2 | MONDAY, NOV. 16, 2015
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Nyomi Warren performs her juvenile piece during the Penn State Figure Skating Club’s showcase at Pegula Ice Arena on Monday, Nov. 15 in
preperation for the Cornell Competition.
Attack
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saying there had been an explosion
at a Paris stadium.
Neigh said they were a bit
shocked, but didn’t initially realize
the gravity of the situation until
the number of news articles regarding
the Paris attacks began
to multiply.
“My friends who are sitting by
me on the couch are all looking at
their phones at this time, and we
said, ‘You know what, lets pause
this movie. Something’s going
on,’” Neigh (junior-information
sciences and technology and
Spanish) said.
Being fluent in French, Neigh
translated the news broadcasts
to his friends — “There were explosions
… and there’s now a hostage
crisis at the Bataclan,” — until
they found the BBC station in
English.
They then began contacting
their friends in Paris to assure
their safety. With bad cell service
and calls dropping, it was hard
to make contact, Leigh said, but
they eventually did, except for one
friend who they didn’t reach until
hours later to confirm his safety.
Neigh said Penn State emailed
him shortly after 11 p.m., French
time, requesting students to check
in with Penn State in the wake of
the violence, and recommending
students to adhere to law enforcement
guidelines and stay indoors
until the situation stabilized.
Neigh said his local community
is still in a state of shock,
and everyone is being cautious,
considering there is still a suspect
at large as of Sunday. Seven
other suspects linked to the attacks
were detained in Belgium,
according to the
Associated Press.
Now the community is holding
off from having any large gatherings,
but Neigh’s host brother
Thibault de Boutray said he and
his family planned to go to church
Sunday night, the first large gathering
since the attacks. They also
plan to place a candle in their window
to show support for Paris.
De Boutray, 18, said closing the
French border comes at a difficult
time for many locals. In the midst
of Europe’s immigration crisis, he
said people need to realize that
By Sarah Vasile
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
A judge has granted a search
warrant that will allow State College
Police to collect DNA samples
from the son of a woman
murdered in a domestic violence
incident in August.
District Judge Carmine Prestia
has allowed police to perform a
cheek swab for DNA on Alexander
Kudlach, according to court documents.
The warrant was received
by Detective Ralph Ralston on
Nov. 6.
Alexander Kudlach, 19, is the
son of Alois Kudlach, who was
charged with the murder of his
wife —and Alexander’s mother—in
September following her
this decision is not related.
“I believe the right choices need
to be made,” he said. “It’s a threat
to the country if we keep [attacking]
Syria, but letting ISIS expand
could be [in the long run] another
threat to the country.”
Neigh said a black American
student in his program asked if
“minorities should be afraid right
now.”
“The answer was kind of unclear,”
Neigh said. “Minorities
are kind of afraid at this point that
people will lump sum together
the attacks that happened on a
certain color of skin or a certain
religion. If there’s really anything
that I think that the Americans
can do is remember to be tolerant,
remember that this was an exception
and remember that this was
terror.”
Neigh said anyone who is considering
visiting France or any
other country in Europe, including
anyone planning to study
abroad, shouldn’t let these acts
scare them from not doing so.
When Sullivan started planning
the event by making a Facebook
page on his own, numerous
people have reached out to him
through social media hoping to
help, including Anthony Zarzycki.
Zarzycki had been eating
dinner in the dining commons on
Friday night when he looked up at
the televisions playing CNN live
coverage of the latest news coming
out of Paris.
“I felt unable to eat anymore because
of how horrific and massive
this event was,” Zarzycki (sophomore-science)
said.
He said he then left the dining
hall with his friend and walked
to the HUB-Robeson Center
to watch the news on the big
television screens.
Students had gathered in a
group to watch the event unfurl
throughout the night, some stopping
as they walked by, others sitting
in chairs as if they were going
to be there for a while.
Zarzycki, who was born in Italy
because his father was in the Air
Force and now lives in Pennsylvania,
reached out on Facebook
to then-stranger Sullivan to assist
with planning a vigil.
“When I saw a vigil being
planned, I knew how much it could
help people and bring us together,
and so I felt I had the responsibility
to do my part,” Zarzycki said.
Anand Saran (sophomore-engineering),
who also reached out to
Sullivan on Facebook to help with
organizing, said that he invited every
friend he knows at Penn State
to the event.
Sullivan said he was at work
when his friends texted him about
the attacks in Paris.
“I just felt helpless the rest of
the night and I had this feeling
that I needed to do something
about this and so the vigil idea
came up,” Sullivan said.
Sullivan said he hopes to get
loudspeakers and a microphone
as well as support from local businesses
downtown for the event.
The Facebook page urges vigil
goers to bring along their own
candles or lights on Tuesday night.
Organizers of the event said they
have reached out to to the administration
in regards to the event
and are awaiting a response.
Penn State UNICEF President
Mikell Washington (senior-criminology,
sociology and Spanish)
said a vigil held on Friday night
at Old Main was originally to address
the refugee crisis, however
that changed shortly beforehand
to standing in solidarity with
Paris.
While the attendance was low,
UNICEF Vice President Hannah
Toombs said the members present
were very emotional, and the
vigil was a way to recognize it in
that moment.
Two of Washington’s roommates
are originally from Paris,
he said. One had lost a friend
living there.
“I think that there is hope for
the future because we are having
these conversations,” Toombs
(senior-anthropology and Spanish)
said. “We’re taking the time
to recognize and brainstorm what
we can do to make a difference.”
Zarzycki said he is optimistic
when asked about his expectations
for the vigil on Tuesday. He
said he hopes to show people that
Penn State can stand in solidarity
and unity in the face of this
weekend’s violence.
“I certainly hope people come
together not out of hatred and
retaliation but kindness and charity,
but I also think Penn State
deserves the chance to speak its
grievances openly,” Zarzycki said.
To email reporters: wda5027@psu.edu and
mxm1108@psu.edu.
Follow them on Twitter at @waiss_aramesh
and @markmarino3.
Steven Senne/Associated Press
A man places a candle at a makeshift memorial in Boston for those killed
and wounded in the Friday attacks in Paris.
DNA cheek swab approved to be
given to alleged murderer’s son
death in August.
Alois Kudlach is currently being
held in the Centre County
Correctional Facility as a result of
his first and third degree murder
charges.
When interviewed by police following
his mother’s death, Alexander
Kudlach confirmed that an
argument had occurred between
his parents the night before the
incident, which matched his father’s
story.
Alexander Kudlach also said
the argument continued the
morning of the incident, according
to the documents.
He said during the argument
his mother, 1987 Penn State Alumna
Nuria Kudlach, went to the
kitchen to get more coffee. Alexander
Kudlach said he then heard
his parents arguing in the kitchen,
followed by two gun shots.
According to the documents, he
then ran to the kitchen and saw
his mother lying on the kitchen
floor. Alexander Kudlach said he
did not witness the actual shooting.
Alois Kudlach then called 911,
and EMS and police arrived
shortly after the call was made,
according to the documents.
Police seized Alexander Kudlach’s
shirt and shorts after obtaining
a search warrant. Both articles
of clothing were black, and
no blood stains were observed
on the clothing, according to the
documents.
On Sept. 16, several items —
including Alexander Kudlach’s
clothing —underwent forensic
analysis.
According to the documents,
forensic scientist supervisor Jeffrey
Wagner reported Alexander
Kudlach’s T-shirt, as well as other
items, revealed stains that were
tested positive to be blood.
Wagner categorized these
stains as possible blood splatter,
not blood transfer or smears, according
to the documents. Wagner
requested a cheek sample be
taken from Alexander Kudlach
for the purpose of identification
and comparison to find the source
of the blood stains.
To email reporter: sev5109@psu.edu.
Follow her on Twitter at: @vasilethedeal.
Bomb
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THE DAILY COLLEGIAN
attack would take place, and a senior
French security official told
the AP that French intelligence
gets these kinds of warnings “all
the time” and “every day.”
However, Iraqi intelligence officials
told the AP that they also
warned France about specific details:
Among them, that the attackers
were trained for this operation
and sent back to France from
Raqqa, the Islamic State’s de-facto
capital.
The officials also said that a
sleeper cell in France then met
with the attackers after their
training and helped them to execute
the plan. There were 24 people
involved in the operation, they
said: 19 attackers and five others
in charge of logistics and planning.
None of these details have been
corroborated by officials of France
or other Western intelligence
agencies.
All these French and Iraqi security
and intelligence officials
spoke with the AP on condition
of anonymity, citing the ongoing
investigation.
Abdeslam is one of three brothers
believed to be involved; One
who crossed with him into Belgium
was later arrested, and another
blew himself up inside the
Bataclan theater after taking the
audience hostage and firing on
them repeatedly. It was the worst
of Friday’s synchronized attacks,
leaving 89 fatalities and hundreds
of people wounded inside.
The Islamic State group claimed
responsibility. Its statement
mocked France’s air attacks on
suspected IS targets in Syria and
Iraq, and called Paris “the capital
of prostitution and obscenity.”
In all, three teams of attackers
including seven suicide bombers
attacked the national stadium,
the concert hall and nearby nightspots.
The attacks wounded 350
people, 99 of them seriously.
Abdeslam rented the black
Volkswagen Polo used by the hostage-takers,
another French security
official said. A Brussels parking
ticket found inside led police to
at least one of the arrests in Belgium,
a French police official said.
Three Kalashnikovs were found
inside another car known to have
been used in the attacks that was
found in Montreuil, an eastern Parisian
suburb, another a French
police official said.
As many as three of the seven
suicide bombers were French
citizens, as was at least one of the
men arrested in the Molenbeek
neighborhood of Brussells, which
authorities consider to be a focal
point for extremists and fighters
going to Syria from Belgium.
Belgian Interior Minister Jan
Jambon, speaking to The Associated
Press by phone, said suspects
arrested in Molenbeek had
been stopped previously in Cambrai,
France, “in a regular roadside
check” but that police had had no
suspicion about them at the time
and they were let go quickly.
One, identified by the print on a
recovered finger, was 29-year-old
Frenchman Ismael Mostefai, who
had a record of petty crime and
had been flagged in 2010 for ties to
Islamic radicalism, the Paris prosecutor
said. A judicial official and
lawmaker Jean-Pierre Gorges
confirmed his identity.
Police detained Mostefai’s father,
a brother and other relatives
Saturday night, and they were
still being questioned Sunday, the
judicial official said.
These details stoked fears of
homegrown terrorism in France,
which has exported more jihadis
than any other in Europe, and
seen many return from the fight.
All three gunmen in the January
attacks on the Charlie Hebdo
newspaper and a kosher supermarket
in Paris were French.
The attackers inside the Bataclan
seemed quite young, according
to one survivor, Julien Pearce,
a journalist at Europe 1 radio
who escaped by crawling onto the
stage, and then out an exit door
when the shooters paused to reload.
Before making his final dash,
he got a good look at one of the
assailants, he said.
“He seemed very young. That’s
what struck me, his childish face,
very determined, cold, calm,
frightening,” Pearce said.
Struggling to keep his country
calm and united after an exceptionally
violent year, President
Francois Hollande met Sunday
with opposition leaders — conservative
rival and former President
Nicolas Sarkozy as well as increasingly
popular far-right leader
Marine Le Pen, who has used
the attacks on Paris to advance
her anti-immigrant agenda.
Refugees fleeing war by the
tens of thousands fear the Paris
attacks could prompt Europe to
close its doors, especially after police
said a Syrian passport found
next to one attacker’s body suggested
its owner passed through
Greece into the European Union
and on through Macedonia and
Serbia last month.
Paris remains on edge amid
three days of official mourning.
French troops have deployed by
the thousands and tourist sites remain
shuttered in one of the most
visited cities on Earth.