Ahmed Eldidi, 62, and his son Mostafa, 26, were arrested in July on terrorism charges for allegedly plotting an attack in Toronto. Now, Ahmed Eldidi faces four war crimes charges, including murder, mutilation, and torture, marking the first time such charges have been laid in a national security investigation in Canada.
A man facing terror charges for allegedly plotting an attack in Toronto with his son is now also facing multiple war crimes charges, police said Tuesday. The RCMP said 62-year-old Ahmed Eldidi — who was arrested along with his son earlier this year for alleged terrorism offences — faces four war crimes charges, including murder, mutilation and torture against a protected person in a “non-international armed conflict.
” It’s the first national security investigation where war crimes charges have been laid in Canada, the force said in a press release. The RCMP declined to provide further comment on the charges or the Eldidis, citing the ongoing investigation. Eldidi and his son, 26-year-old Mostafa Eldidi, were arrested in Richmond Hill, Ont., in July on nine terrorism charges, including conspiracy to commit murder on behalf of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. The RCMP had said at the time that the two men were in the advanced stages of planning a “serious, violent attack” in Toronto. The Mounties said Tuesday that the elder Eldidi appeared in court on Monday in relation to the new charges. The elder Eldidi had been the subject of particular scrutiny in the wake of the arrests after Global News reported that he had allegedly appeared in an ISIS video in 2015, and still went on to obtain Canadian citizenship. The Canadian Press has not independently reviewed the video. Following the arrests, the federal public safety minister provided a House of Commons committee with a detailed timeline of the pair’s immigration file, confirming that the elder Eldidi arrived in Canada in February 2018
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