"Innocent Muslims" Muhammad provocateur Nakoula has criminal past

"The innocence of Muslims" is the anti-Islam film by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula that has led to violent protests in the Arab world.U.S. authorities have alleged the makers of the videos in their sights.The Coptic probably a criminal past. According to local media Nakoula Besseley Nakoula was early on Saturday picked up by police from his home in Cerritos, California.It should be checked whether he had violated laws.His interrogation Nakoula voted accordingly to itself.According to the TV channel CNN Nakoula voluntarily went with the officers to the police station and left it alone for several hours.The 55-year-old has to U.S. media reports, a criminal past.Accordingly, he was convicted of bank fraud in 2010 to a prison term of 21 months, but was released after a year.He was also banned for five years of access to the Internet.Moreover, it has been accused of welfare fraud and drug possession. Nakoula, as the author of thefilm "The innocence of Muslims" is true, claims to be a 55-year-old Coptic Christian.According to "New York Times" was the film that represents the Prophet Muhammad as a womanizer, violent offenders and pedophiles, shot in the summer of 2011 in the vicinity of Los Angeles.To have played the role that it Nakoula exactly is still unclear.Some U.S. media describe him as a filmmaker, other as the mastermind behind the strip, which can be seen in excerpts on the Internet platform YouTube.On Friday, he announced, not to regret the release of the video, in the face of attacks on Western institutions in the Arab world but to feel "guilty."In the Arab countries came on Saturday experienced a quiet.Egyptian security forces evacuated the central Cairo's Tahrir Square and the streets to the nearest U.S. embassy.In Egypt, meanwhile worldwide protests had begun on Tuesday with an assault on the U.S. mission.