This is the first decision of its kind in Canada that has been handed down based on the connection between ethnic pride and terrorism
Farhan Akhtar
Ontario (Farhan Akhtar) A white man who deliberately crushed a Muslim family under his car in Canada has been sentenced to life imprisonment.
According to the French news agency AFP, this is the first decision of its kind in Canada that has been handed down based on the connection between ethnic pride and terrorism.
Nathaniel Veltman, 23, was convicted in November of four counts of intentional homicide. After the arrest of the Pakistani suspect in the incident, Veltman admitted that he deliberately rammed the pickup on the members of the Muslim family. Besides, Afzal’s mother was also killed, who was 74 years old. Three generations of people were killed and a child was injured. The judge hearing the case said Veltman’s attack was an act of terrorism. For the first time in the country, the term was used to describe any white nationalist violence. Weltman crushed five members of the Pakistani-origin Afzal family under his truck in London, Ontario. They left for a trip to Syria in June 2021. Those killed in this incident included 46-year-old Salman Afzal, his wife Madeeha Salman, 44, their 15-year-old daughter Yemeni, and Afzal’s 74-year-old mother Talat. Mother Tabinda Bukhari said after the court decision that we don’t know if this is the end or justice, but we know for sure that our loved ones will not come back from this decision. Imprisonment. This is the first decision of its kind that has been handed down based on the link between ethnic pride and terrorism. In June 2021, a white Canadian citizen drove five members of a Pakistani-origin family out of his pick-up truck while they were out for a walk in Syria. It was crushed in Ontario in which four were killed on the spot. The dead included 46-year-old Salman Afzal, his 44-year-old wife Madeeha Salman, 15-year-old daughter Yamuna, and Salman’s 74-year-old mother Talat. Madeeha Salman’s mother Tabinda Bukhari. “We don’t know if the case is closed or if justice has been done, we just know that what was taken from us will never come back,” he said.
