Canadian white supremacist who killed Muslim family gets life sentence
Al Jazeera
The judge in the case said Nathaniel Veltman’s attack represented an act of ‘terrorism’.
A Canadian white supremacist who deliberately ran over four members of a Muslim family has been sentenced to life in prison for the murders.
Nathaniel Veltman, 23, was convicted in November of four counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder for the attack that shocked Canada
Salman Afzaal, 46; his wife, Madiha Salman, 44; their daughter Yumnah, 15; and Afzaal’s mother, Talat, 74, were killed. The couple’s nine-year-old son suffered serious injuries but survived.
The family had been out for a walk near their home in the town of London, Ontario, at the time of the attack.
The judge in the case said Veltman’s attack represented an act of terrorism, the first time that the term has been used to describe white nationalist violence.
