Forklift operator Ruben Antonio Ochoa Cruz had just been confronted about
missing work at a Woodridge furniture warehouse and decided he needed
to do something to relieve the stress he was feeling, according to
federal prosecutors.
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The April 21 fire quickly raged out of control as flames that could be
seen for miles swept through the 325,000-square-foot building in the
2500 block of Internationale Parkway. It took more than 100 firefighters
about seven hours to get the blaze under control, authorities said.
Officials estimated the damages at $70 million.
Cruz, 20, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Maria Valdez on
Friday charged with one count of intentionally damaging property by
fire, a charge that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years
in prison if he is convicted.
Dressed in an orange prison jumpsuit, Cruz, of Joliet, listened to the proceedings through a Spanish
interpreter. He was ordered held in custody pending a detention hearing Wednesday.
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2 May 2016 - European courts appear to be going easy on the UK in the run up to the Brexit referendum because they are scared of provoking voters into choosing to leave the European Union (EU).
The number of human rights cases against the British government has dropped by a third since the referendum was called, and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has also sided with Britain in a variety of disputes.
The court, based in Strasbourg, heard 1,702 cases against Britain in 2012, but that number dropped to 908 in 2013, after Prime Minister David Cameron announced there would be an EU referendum within four years.
That total fell again to 720 in 2014 and then 575 last year - a drop of 66 per cent from 2012.
The Daily Mail reports that a number of major judgements also went in Britain's favour during this period, compared to previous years where EU judges condemned the country on issues such as the detention of Al Qaeda militant Abu Qatada, or the shooting of IRA terrorists in Gibraltar.
A spokesman for the court denied they were going easy, saying: "The statistics refer to the number of applications allocated to a judicial formation.
"The decrease coincides with the ECHR's new stricter approach to what constitutes an application. Stricter conditions for lodging an application have been applied since January 1, 2014."
However, UK Defence Minister Julian Brazier said: "The European institutions are going easy on Britain until they see the outcome of the referendum.
"The judges are afraid of the restoration of parliamentary sovereignty and control of our own laws."
David Campbell Bannerman, who is one of the minority of Conservative MEPs to back Brexit, added: "They have turned the tap off for political reasons. The danger is they will turn it back on again, and if we vote to remain there will be a flood of new court rulings against Britain."
Although the ECHR is not run by the EU, obedience to its rulings is a key requirement for member states, and its actions are often seen as part the wider interference in British life by Europe-wide institutions.
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At least five police officers have been injured and nine people arrested during violent May Day protests in the U.S. city of Seattle.
There were ugly scenes in Seattle's downtown district as anti-capitalist demonstrators through rocks and other projectiles at police, including Molotov cocktails.
One officer reportedly suffered a gash to the head.
A large deployment of riot police, both on foot and bicycle, quickly moved in to control the crowd.
The annual May Day demonstration in Seattle has frequently been the scene of violent unrest in the past.
Republican presidential nominee in waiting Donald Trump takes a 15 point lead into Tuesday's Indiana primary, according to opinion polls.
Donald Trump up big in Indiana in latest polls. Tuesday is going to be a big day. #Trump2016 pic.twitter.com/FD7PzPqxHF- We Need Trump (@WeNeedTrump) May 1, 2016
Billionaire Trump believes its the end of the road for his Republican rivals:
"If we win Indiana, it's over ok. If we win Indiana it's over. It's over. And we are going to get there, and I shouldn't say this because it takes away your incentive, we're going to get there anyway. But if we win Indiana most people think the others will quit the race and then we can focus on crooked Hillary. Please let's focus on Hillary,"
he told supporters.
Speaking in Detroit to a largely African-American crowd Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton praised the work of outgoing president Barack Obama:
"It was a tremendous honour to serve in President Obama's administration. Now America is deciding who will succeed him. The leading Republican contender is the man who led the insidious birther movement to discredit the president's citizenship."
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton addresses Detroit NAACP Dinner. #detnaacp pic.twitter.com/v14s2dULn1- Chuck Stokes (CStokesWXYZ) May 2, 2016
In Los Angeles a traditional May Day march turned into an anti-Trump demonstration as the country gears up for potentially for the most devisive US presidential election in decades.
May Day rally in LA hoists effigy of Trump with KKK hood as crowd trashes him https://t.co/p0ymHNSKhM pic.twitter.com/SiLbYvqTq0- R Joseph (rjoseph7777) May 2, 2016
2 May 2016 - Police evacuated more than one thousand people from a makeshift migrant camp near a Paris metro station on Monday, the third time the camp has been cleared in as many months.
Shortly after 6am, people who had been staying in the tightly packed tents under an elevated section of the Stalingrad station in the north of Paris began boarding buses to take them to reception centres.
The evacuation passed off largely without incident, authorities said.
Although only around 500 people had been counted at the camp the night before, police said around 1,350 people had gathered there Monday to be re-located to accommodation centres, suggesting that migrants from other parts of Paris had swelled their numbers.
Around 150 police officers were involved in the operation to relocate the migrants, mostly from Sudan and Afghanistan.
"We're happy to leave," said Moustafa, a 24-year-old Afghan who had been at the camp for a month.
"There were fights every night at the camp."
Another Afghan, Abdullah, said he hoped to stay in Paris long-term. "That is where the rest of the community is and there is work here."
He said he had given up hope of reaching Britain, the country which many of his compatriots try to reach from France.
"It's a good country here," he said.
Flimsy tents were packed into a small area around the station and the overflowing rubbish bins and piles of mattresses indicated that conditions at the camp had deteriorated in recent weeks.
Jean-Francois Carenco, the prefect of the Ile de France area that includes Paris, said he expected the migrants to request asylum.
"Those who do not request asylum or who behave badly will be expelled," he said. "France is not a place for disorder and chaos."
Nearly 80,000 people applied for asylum in France in 2015, but it has been affected less than its European neighbours by the mass influx of migrants over the last 18 months.
The main migrant camp in France, the so-called "Jungle" in the northern port of Calais, now holds around 5,000 people, according to charity workers, but the government says that figure is vastly inflated.
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