RCMP charges Ottawa man with terrorism offences in groundbreaking arrest
The RCMP has charged an Ottawa man with three terrorism-related offences relating to his alleged involvement with the neo-Nazi Atomwaffen Division.
The Mounties charged Patrick Gordon Macdonald, a 26-year-old Ottawa man, with participating in the activity of a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity and commission of an offence for terrorist group .that the arrests of Macdonald and a second individual came about in response to information it received about the activities of the far-right Atomwaffen Division, a group Canada has listed as a terrorist entity.
"This material was intended to promote the group and recruit members, and encourages the commission of terrorist activities," the news release said. "The group calls for acts of violence against racial, religious and ethnic groups, and informants, police and bureaucrats, to prompt the collapse of society," the department said in its terrorism listing.
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