CP NewsAlert: Court finds stabbing at UWaterloo was not terrorism but was hate crime
Written by The Canadian Press on March 17, 2025
An Ontario court has found that an attack at a University of Waterloo gender studies class nearly two years ago was not terrorism but constituted a “particularly grave” hate crime.
The judge sentencing Geovanny Villalba-Aleman says that hatred was “the primary motivation” for the June 2023 stabbing, which is a significant aggravating factor.
More coming.
The Canadian Press