Charges relate to propaganda videos produced in 2019 to promote neo-Nazi group, spur recruitment and encourage terrorist activities, says RCMP corporal
A 26-year-old Ottawa man is facing terrorism and hate charges after allegedly creating propaganda videos for a neo-Nazi group, making him the first person to face both types of charges simultaneously in Canada.have charged the man, Patrick Gordon Macdonald, with participating in the activity of a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity, and the commission of an offence – the willful promotion of hatred – for a terrorist group.
Cpl. Adams said that the specific charge of promoting hate propaganda on behalf of a terrorist entity is punishable by life in prison. According to the federal government, the group “calls for acts of violence against racial, religious, and ethnic groups, and informants, police, and bureaucrats, to prompt the collapse of society.”
Mr. Macdonald was first publicly identified as an alleged neo-Nazi propagandist by VICE News in 2021, the same year the federal government listed Atomwaffen as a terrorist organization.was charged with terrorism in a separate case In the past three years, he said, more than half of terrorism charges laid have related to far-right activity, ”which is a huge shift from the first 20 years of how we charged this.”
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