An Ottawa man was sentenced on Monday to ten years in prison for the promotion of hate propaganda against Jewish people produced for the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division. Superior Court Justice Robert Smith found Patrick Gordon MacDonald guilty earlier this year on all three charges brought against him: promoting hate speech, participating in the activities of a terror group and facilitating terrorist activities. MacDonald, a graphic designer in his late 20s, pleaded not guilty to the charges. Crown prosecutors argued during the trial that MacDonald worked under the alias “Dark Foreigner” for a listed terror group to promote hatred against Jews and other minorities to provoke a race war. They tied him to the recording of several violent, hate-filled videos and the creation of Nazi-inspired images through multimedia equipment and other items that were seized by police, along with his telephone and banking records. The Jewish advocacy group B’nai Brith Canada, which testified at the sentencing hearing, hailed the judge’s decision as a victory for community safety.
via citynews: Ottawa man sentenced to 10 years in neo-Nazi terrorist propaganda trial
siehe auch: Ontario man connected to neo-Nazi terrorist group sentenced to 10 years by provincial court. An Ontario man connected to a neo-Nazi extremist group has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. A release today by Public Prosecution Service Canada (PPSC) indicated that, in the Ontario Superior Court, Patrick Gordon MacDonald of Ottawa has been handed a decade-long sentence in connection with multiple terrorism-related offenses. Based on the court’s findings, MacDonald was a key participant in the creation and editing of videos released online, encouraging viewers to commit violent acts on behalf of what official RCMP correspondence describes as the global white supremacist and neo-Nazi network Atomwaffen Division (AWD) — a listed terrorist organization. The initial arrest, according to the RCMP, dates back to July 3, 2023, when MacDonald was detained on what was described as “The first [case] in Canada in which an individual advocating a violent far-right ideology has been charged with both terrorism and hate propaganda.” (…) “Those who provide their skills to a terrorist entity, to produce videos to be sown indiscriminately among young and vulnerable minds reaching out on the internet, seek to reap a harvest of hate and division culminating in violence across Canada and internationally,” said George Dolhai, Director of Public Prosecutions with PPSC. During his timeline of creating propaganda for AWD, MacDonald also produced and posted images that specifically targeted members of the international Jewish community; Terror propagandist ‘Dark Foreigner’ sentenced to 10 years in prison. Patrick Gordon MacDonald has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for inciting hate, fear and division by calling for violence against Jews with terrorist propaganda images and videos he helped make. In April, Justice Robert Smith convicted MacDonald of all three charges he faced: participating in terrorist activity, facilitating terrorist activity, and inciting hate against Jews for one or more terrorist entities, including the now defunct Atomwaffen Division and the neo-Nazi James Mason. Crown prosecutors had implored the judge to hand down 14 years for MacDonald’s “vile” crimes he committed under the alias Dark Foreigner, while his defence argued for six to eight years and about 10 months of credit for time already served in custody and on bail under strict conditions. Smith began delivering his decision Monday morning. Terror propagandist ‘Dark Foreigner’ should get 14 years for ‘vile’ crimes, Crown argues In 2018 and 2019 — when he was 20 and 21 — MacDonald helped create three racist, hate-fuelled terror recruitment videos in Ottawa, Belleville, Ont., and Saint-Ferdinand, Que., among other places. One video shows people wearing skull masks moving through a wooded area and shooting firearms. Near the end, the flags of the U.S., Israel and European Union are shown on the ground, being drenched in an accelerant and set on fire, interspersed with shots of armed people in tactical formation storming a building.