A Canadian man accused of planning an ISIS-inspired attack in Toronto with his son faces additional charges of war crimes, marking the first time such allegations have been brought against an individual in Canada.
An alleged Islamic State supporter accused of planning an attack in Toronto this summer with his son has been charged with four separate war crimes, the first time RCMP say such charges have been laid in Canada. This comes months after the federal opposition MPs grilled Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc and leaders from the RCMP and Canada’s spy and border agencies about a propaganda video broadcast by the terrorist group that the politicians alleged depict Mr.
Eldidi dismembering a prisoner a decade ago. The RCMP announced the direct indictment of Mr. Eldidi, 62, on Tuesday. He appeared in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Newmarket on Monday. The investigation by the RCMP’s Toronto-area counterterrorism unit, which is part of its Integrated National Security Enforcement Team, first led to the arrests of Mr. Eldidi and his son Mostafa Eldidi, 26, in a hotel in Richmond Hill, Ont., at the end of July. Charges included conspiracy to commit murder on behalf of the Islamic State. Police have alleged the duo were “in the advanced stages of planning a serious, violent attack in Toronto,” with a machete and an axe, but have not publicly released their alleged targets. At the time, the elder Mr. Eldidi was also charged with the aggravated assault of someone outside of Canada in 2015, allegedly done “for the benefit of, at the direction of, or in association with” the Islamic State, according to charge documents from that time. The new indictment alleges that some time between Nov. 25, 2014, and June 16, 2015, somewhere outside of Canada, he committed the separate war crimes of murder, mutilation and torture against a protected person in a “non-international armed conflict,” as well as outrages upon personal dignity. None of the charges have been proven in court and Mr. Eldidi’s lawyer declined to comment when contacted late Tuesda
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