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Terrorist teen had cell number for Canadian soldier slayer
[Montreal Gazette] The Montreal teenager currently on trial for preparing to leave Canada to take part in terrorist activity abroad communicated with Martin Couture-Rouleau dozens of times before the latter killed a Canadian soldier last year. The now 16-year-old eventually admitted he had frequent exchanges with Couture-Rouleau during a nearly three-hour interrogation on Oct. 20. He was questioned just hours after Couture-Rouleau used his car to run over two Canadian soldiers in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu. Investigators learned that Couture-Rouleau had a cell phone. They then learned that the youth, who had been arrested on Oct. 17 in connection with an armed robbery, had the number for that same cell phone written down on a slip of paper found in a pair of his pants. The national security team was at the time investigating whether the youth held up the convenience store with a knife, to buy a plane ticket, possibly to fly to Syria and join Daesh. The youth revealed that his last exchange, through Twitter, was on Oct. 15, five days before Vincent was killed and just two days before the boy was arrested for the armed robbery at the dépanneur. The boy was considering robbing another convenience store and asked Couture-Rouleau if he could borrow $50 to buy another knife so he could rob again. His father had discovered the knife and mask he used and took the items away from him. Youth Court Judge Dominique Wilhelmy is expected to decide on Friday whether the interrogation can be allowed into evidence in the trial. Posted by: ryuge 2015-09-11 |
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