Police in Toronto have taken the rare step in updating a teenager’s first-degree murder and attempted murder charges to those of terrorism due his alleged connection to the “incel” movement.
On Tuesday, RCMP said the charges against the 17-year-old boy now include terrorism offences as officers found evidence that the accused was “inspired by the Ideologically Motivated Violent Extremist movement commonly known as incel.”
In an interview with CTV’s Power Play on Tuesday, Public Safety Minister Bill Blair would not comment on whether this was the first time a terrorism charge has been laid against someone with ties to the incel community, but said the officers made the right call in updating the charges. Ashley Noelle Arzaga, a 24-year-old employee of the massage parlour, was found dead at the scene, while another woman, who was later identified as the parlour’s owner, was also badly injured in the incident.
During the investigation, members of the Toronto Police Service contacted the RCMP after they say they found evidence that the crime was potentially a “terrorist activity”. It was later determined by various authorities that the accused was inspired by the incel movement.
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