The author of a ram truck attack that killed 11 people in downtown Toronto in 2018 was sentenced Monday, June 13 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years.
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Alek Minassian, 25 at the time of the attack, was found guilty by a Canadian judge just over a year ago, in March 2021. On April 23, 2018, driving a rented white van, he had driven at full speed between the traffic lanes and the sidewalks of the Canadian metropolis, aiming at passers-by for about two kilometers.
Ten people were killed and 16 injured, before the toll rose to 11 dead at the end of October 2021 with the death of an injured woman who had spent more than three years in hospital.
It is the worst attack ever in Toronto, a city of 6 million people.
This sentence comes less than three weeks after the Supreme Court of Canada struck down cumulative sentences for murderers, a provision of the criminal code dating back to 2011 which authorized justice to impose extremely long prison sentences on killers who have caused numerous dead.
The Court had then concluded that a prison sentence which
“greatly exceeds the life expectancy of any human person is degrading by its absurdity and, therefore, contrary to human dignity”
.
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“I am really not satisfied”
, reacted Monday to his exit from the courthouse Elwood Delaney, close to one of the victims, in front of the journalists.
Alek Minassian
"sat there, he showed no emotion and barely looked at people"
, lamented the one who lost his grandmother in the attack, adding to feel
"a lot of anger towards this man"
.
Luwam Ogbaselassie, who she lost her aunt to in the attack, spoke of an
“incredibly difficult”
and
“emotional”
day .
"I don't think anyone can prepare for what we went through in this room
," she told the cameras, adding that the sentencing marked the end of
"four long years."
.
