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Courts tie white supremacy to terrorism for first time in Veltman case

Case of man who ran down Muslim family also establishes group ties not needed for terrorism to occur
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Justice Renee Pomerance, from left to right, Nathaniel Veltman’s lawyers Peter Ketcheson and Christopher Hicks and Veltman, standing at rear, are shown in a courtroom sketch during Veltman’s sentencing hearing at the courthouse in London, Ont., Thursday, Feb. 22, 2024. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Alexandra Newbould

The case of an Ontario man who carried out a deadly attack on a Muslim family was the first to recognize terrorism on grounds of white supremacist ideology and further emphasized that terrorism isn’t limited to those who belong to specific groups, experts and observers said after the landmark trial ended this week.

Nathaniel Veltman was sentenced Thursday to life in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years for each of four counts of first-degree murder in the June 2021 attack that killed four members of the Afzaal family in London, Ont.

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