Geovanny Villalba-Aleman will spend another seven years and six months behind bars for the 2023 triple stabbing at the University of Waterloo, while the terrorism charge against him has been dropped. Villalba-Aleman previously pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated assault, one count of assault causing bodily harm and one count of assault with a weapon. On Monday, the judge sentenced Villalba-Aleman to 11 years on the first aggravated assault charge, 6 years for the second aggravated assault charge, 18 months for assault causing bodily harm and 6 months for assault with a weapon. All of them will be served concurrently. Villalba-Aleman has already spent 627 days behind bars, but the court credited his pre-sentencing custody at 1,254 days. As of Monday, he’ll remain behind bars for another 7 years, 6 months, 6 weeks and 5 days. Villalba-Aleman, a 24-year-old international student who had recently graduated from the university, stabbed two students and a professor during a gender studies class on June 28, 2023. He also left a ripped-up Pride flag on a desk.
via ctvnews: University of Waterloo stabber will spend another seven years behind bars, cleared on terrorism charge
siehe auch: University of Waterloo stabbing was hate crime, not terrorism: judge. A mass stabbing at a University of Waterloo gender studies class was not a terrorist attack but a “particularly grave” hate crime meant to make people feel unsafe in those spaces, an Ontario judge ruled Monday in sentencing the attacker to 11 years in prison. The judge sentencing Geovanny Villalba-Aleman told a Kitchener, Ont., court that the evidence in the case does not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that his hatred toward the LGBTQ+ community had crystallized into an ideology, which is one of the requirements for a finding of terrorism. However, Ontario Court Justice Frances Brennan found hatred against that community was “the primary motivation” for the June 2023 stabbing, which is a significant aggravating factor. “Mr. Villalba-Aleman planned this attack. He posted a boastful and hateful statement of his intention and committed the offence in a university classroom, no doubt to draw widespread attention to his crime,” Brennan said. “This was not an impulsive act by any definition. Mr. Villalba-Aleman was deliberate and calculated. He intended to inflict, and did inflict, widespread fear.”