Slain Windsor woman expressed fears to CBC News days before she died
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Less than a week before she died, a woman stabbed in a small southwestern Ontario town had spoken to CBC about the threats she was facing for speaking out about Khalistan extremism.
Nancy Grewal, 45, was identified by police as the victim in a stabbing outside a home on Todd Lane in LaSalle, Ont., on Tuesday.
She was at the home working as a personal support worker.
On Feb. 25, she spoke with a CBC journalist about extremism within the Sikh separatist movement.
“I know sometimes I feel scared when they said '[we’ll] kill you' then I said 'OK, you can kill me anytime,’” she said in the interview.
The Khalistani movement calls for a Sikh homeland in India. Not all separatists support violence. However, factions of the movement have been involved in violent incidents.
The movement was started around 1940, when a secessionist group sought to create an independent country called Khalistan in the Sikh-dominated state of Punjab. Extremists have been linked to deadly attacks over the decades, including the 1985 Air India bombing.
Grewal, a Sikh social media influencer who was a strong critic of Khalistan extremism, said she had been harassed and threatened for speaking about violence in the movement.
LaSalle police, which are investigating Grewal’s death, have said her killing is believed to be targeted.
They haven't commented on what they believe is the motive in the stabbing. Const. Alaina Atkins said on Friday that an OPP canine unit helped in the early stages of the investigation.
The RCMP says they have not been called in to assist.
In the interview Grewal gave the week before she was killed, she said men started a fire on the front deck of her Windsor, Ont., home one early morning in November.
"I don't feel safe here," she said. "The guys attack on my house."
Video from a home security camera Grewal shared with CBC showed a man in a hooded sweater approaching the front deck of her home and dumping liquid from a red gas can across the surface before lighting it.
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