Canadian neo-Nazi (Matthew Althorpe) was ‘man behind the curtain’ of global terror attacks, Crown says, calling for 20-year sentence – #atomwaffendivision #awd #terror

Niagara man Matthew Althorpe “unleashed something that cannot be stopped,” a prosecutor told the judge By Jacques Gallant Courts and Justice Reporter Toronto Star While a Niagara region man may now be remorseful for producing recruitment videos for a neo-Nazi terrorist group and writing racist manifestos that inspired attacks around the world, the deadly consequences of his actions will live on for years, a Toronto judge was told Tuesday. Matthew Althorpe “remains a danger to the public,” federal prosecutor Amber Pashuk told Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly during a sentencing hearing, asking that the 30-year-old man be sent to prison for 20 years. The defence, which will present its sentencing arguments in January, is asking for a sentence of 12 to 14 years. Althorpe pleaded guilty in October to facilitating terrorist activity, instructing a person to carry out terrorist activity, and willfully promoting hatred against identifiable groups, as he admitted to making videos for the since-disbanded Atomwaffen Division, an international neo-Nazi group listed as a terrorist entity by several countries, including Canada in 2021. He also wrote racist and violent manifestos that still exist online today, and have been cited by people who committed acts of terrorism, including an attacker who killed two people in a shooting outside a Slovakian gay bar in 2022, and a teenager who stabbed five people near a mosque in Turkey in 2024. “Althorpe is the man behind the curtain,” Pashuk said. These were not just some “ill-conceived and regretted social media posts,” the Crown said. Rather, Althorpe’s writings represent a “continuous, deep-rooted and decade-long commitment of advancing an extraordinarily violent” white supremacist ideology. Had he not pleaded guilty, Pashuk said the Crown would have asked for a life sentence.

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