Plot against Rail: the Supreme Court refuses to hear the terrorist Raed Jacser

Terrorist Raed Jaser has exhausted all his judicial appeals after the Supreme Court. Nevertheless, of Canada refused on Thursday to hear his appeal about the failed attack on Rail for which he was sentenced to life after his trial in 2015 in Toronto.

The trial had shown that Raed Jaser. In addition, his accomplice, Chiheb Esseghaier, wanted to force – by exploding a rail bridge – the Harper government of the time to remove Canadian troops based from Afghanistan.

The defense of Raed Jaser disputed before the highest court in the province that his client was tried. Consequently, with his Montreal accomplice Chiheb Esseghaier. Meanwhile,

She said during the hearings in December 2023 that her client should never have had a joint. Furthermore, trial with Chiheb Esseghaier because of her accomplice religious fanaticism.

In his judgment. in plot against rail: supreme court the summer of 2024, the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled, however, that the mental health of Chiheb Esseghaier had only become problematic at the time of the hearing on the determination of the sentence and not during the trial.

Raed Jaser could therefore not have benefited from a dismissal during the trial on the pretext that his accomplice was sick. assuming that the trial judge had ruled that Montrealers were unfit to undergo a trial.

However, Montrealers had been deemed able to undergo the criminal procedures started against him.

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Raed Jaser has already lost the first part. of his call on the selection of jurors at his trial in 2015.

The Court of Appeal had proved him right by ordering a new trial. but the crown had appealed before the highest court in the country, which had concluded that the selection of the jury had been failing, but that this would have changed anything in the verdict of guilt.

The second part of Raed Jaser’s appeal had then been able to continue before the highest court in Ontario about the mental health of his accomplice (it was first necessary to check if the selection of the jury plot against rail: supreme court had been appropriate. editor’s note). , However, had lost his bet.

This time. it was the instructions to the jury that would have been lacking, according to the defense of the Toronto, which asked for the Supreme Court on this subject.

At the time. the jury found himself in an impasse concerning the accusation of a conspiracy against a gear of via deposited against Jaser, but he had convicted the individual of three other infractions related to terrorism: an accusation of conspiracy in order to commit a murder for the benefit of a terrorist group and two others of participation in the activities of a terrorist group.

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Chiheb Esseghaier had been found guilty of the four counts. The Montrealer had abandoned her appeal to appeal.

If the Supreme Court had accepted its request. the defense of Jaser intended to present a third argument on the application of evidence in determining the sentence concerning information of a sensitive nature and the trapping of the accused by the use of a mole.

The trial had shown that the attack on Via Rail had been fanned. thwarted by an plot against rail: supreme court infiltrated agent of the FBI who had joined the two terrorists by offering them in particular to finance their plot.

Raed Jaser’s defense argued that the perpetuity sentence that the trial judge had imposed against his client was. wrong insofar as he did not take into account the role that the Taupe had played in conjuration.

The Ontario Court of Appeal had however rejected this argument. so that the perpetuity sentence pronounced against Raed Jaser had been maintained.

It was expected that the crown invalidates the request of Raed Jacser all over the line.

As usual, the Supreme Court of Canada did not give its reasons not to hear the complainant.

With Canadian press information