2026-08-07 / 路透社
作者：卡尼什卡·辛格
2026年8月7日 2:44 UTC 1小时前更新
这张2025年4月23日制作的示意图中，可见美国司法部标志和美国国旗。路透社/达多·鲁维奇/示意图/资料图片 购买授权许可
华盛顿8月6日（路透社）——美国司法部周四表示，被控与7月中旬费城东北部伊斯兰中心纵火案有关的男子，之所以 targeting 这座宗教场所，是因为它是一座清真寺。
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细节：
- 美国司法部在一份声明中表示，60岁的文森特·朗“被起诉一项罪名：使用恶意手段纵火烧毁用于州际商业活动的建筑，以及一项罪名：损坏宗教不动产”。
- 起诉书指控“朗实施该行为是因为该财产的宗教属性，即因为它是一座清真寺”。
- 美国司法部称，被告自7月中旬被捕以来一直被联邦拘留。
- 起诉书指控，7月5日凌晨，朗通过纵火手段恶意损坏并摧毁了费城东北部伊斯兰中心，并试图损坏和摧毁该中心。
- 当地媒体报道称，此次事件未造成人员受伤。
- 美国司法部表示，如果定罪，朗最高将面临40年监禁，且法定最低刑期为5年监禁。
- 记者无法联系到朗的代表置评。
- 美国民权倡导者指出，自2001年9月11日袭击事件后的几十年里，伊斯兰恐惧症持续抬头，而近期由于反移民政策、白人至上主义以及以色列对加沙战争的余波，这一现象更为严重。
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DOJ says man charged in Philadelphia mosque fire targeted it because it was a mosque
2026-08-07 / Reuters
By Kanishka Singh
August 7, 2026 2:44 AM UTC Updated 1 hour ago
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WASHINGTON, Aug 6 (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday a man charged in connection to a mid-July fire at the Northeast Philadelphia Islamic Center had targeted the house of worship because it was a mosque.
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DETAILS:
- Vincent Lang, 60, “was charged by indictment with one count of malicious damage by means of fire to a building used in interstate commerce and one count of damage to religious real property,” the DOJ said in a statement.
- The indictment alleged “Lang carried out the act because of the religious character of that property, that is, because it was a mosque.”
- The defendant has been detained in federal custody since his mid-July arrest, the DOJ said
- The indictment alleges that, in the early hours of July 5, Lang maliciously damaged and destroyed, and attempted to damage and destroy, by means of fire, the Northeast Philadelphia Islamic Center.
- Local media reported no one was injured in the incident.
- If convicted, Lang faces a maximum penalty of 40 years in prison, with a mandatory minimum of five years’ imprisonment, the DOJ said.
- A representative of Lang could not be reached for comment.
- U.S. rights advocates have noted rising Islamophobia in the decades following the September 11, 2001 attacks, and more recently because of anti-immigration policies, white supremacy and the fallout from Israel’s war in Gaza.
Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Christopher Cushing
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