A 3D printer, a framed picture of Adolf Hitler, and a knife with Nazi symbols were found in Patrick Macdonald’s home. The trial of Patrick Macdonald is nearing the end of its first week, as the Atomwaffen propagandist faces three terrorism charges. Better known by his pseudonym Dark Foreigner, Macdonald, 27, is accused of participating in the activity of a terrorist group, facilitating terrorist activity, and the commission of offence for a terrorist group. Week one saw witnesses from law enforcement responsible for the 2022 raid on Macdonald’s home as well as analyzing the seized devices on the stand. Macdonald’s home was the subject of a raid in March 2022, while a separate search took place in central Quebec in June of that year, also in relation to the Atomwaffen Division. The week ended with testimony from two RCMP digital analysts. Sgt. Jonathan Savaria discussing the extraction of the contents of Macdonald’s two mobile phones and personal computers. He did not go into the specifics of the contents, but detailed the process of extracting the data, how it was organized, and the tools used to examine the various devices. Macdonald’s defence, led by attorney Doug Baum, kept their cross-examination limited to questions about how images extracted from one of Macdonald’s mobile devices were assigned dates. He has asked the court not to consider materials created outside the period of the indictment, April, 1 2018 to December 31, 2019. The entire report on Macdonald’s phone was not visible to the court, but during a discussion of the data extracted from the images found on the devices, an image that looked like a selfie of Macdonald, a stylized picture of soldiers, and accused killer Casey Anthony were all visible. Ian Haya, a video and audio analyst with the RCMP, took the stand in the last half of Friday. Recognized as an expert by the court, Haya’s testimony focused on the examination and extraction of the data from the three videos that Macdonald is alleged to have participated in producing with Atomwaffen Division.
via antihate.ca: “FASCISM, DEAL WITH IT”: WEEK ONE OF ALLEGED ATOMWAFFEN PROPAGANDIST’S TRIAL FOCUSES ON SEIZED ITEMS, DIGITAL EVIDENCE