Longtime neo-Nazi Kevin Goudreau was sentenced to seven months after he stole a Pride flag from a neighbour’s house and burned it while yelling homophobic slurs. According to the courts, Goudreau stole a gay pride flag from his neighbour’s porch and burned the flag in his backyard around 2 am. During the burning, he began shouting homophobic slurs. A transgender neighbour reported hearing the commotion and went outside to confront him. Goudreau called the individual a slur and was arrested shortly after. “In my view, it is readily apparent from Mr. Goudreau’s actions in burning a Pride flag while screaming “die f***t die” in a public location immediately outside a multi-unit dwelling that his conduct was motivated by bias, prejudice, or hatred,” Justice Stuart Konyer said in court. “His conduct was vile, reprehensible and harmful to other members of the community, including the victims.” Goudreau served 128 days of pre-sentence custody after he was arrested on the night of the incident in June 2024. He was already serving a 90-day intermittent sentence for a remarkably similar situation on March 31, 2022, when his upstairs neighbours, a lesbian couple, reported Goudreau circling the apartment building, shouting expletives, slurs, and threats. “After opening a window and hearing the ‘Heil Hitlers’ and all that, it turned into like the threats of ‘f***t b***s, I’m gonna kill you,’ and really aggressive yelling,” one of the victims told the Canadian Anti-Hate Network at the time. Canadian Anti-Hate Network board member Richard Warman filed a criminal complaint against Kevin Goudreau for the March 2022 matter.
via antihate: “A SAD, HATE-FILLED MAN”: NEO-NAZI KEVIN GOUDREAU SENTENCED FOR BURNING STOLEN PRIDE FLAG, PAROLE VIOLATIONS