Youth arrested in Ontario for posting ISIS videos, seeking firearms
Global News
The arrest comes amid what security officials are calling a worrying trend of youth radicalization.
The RCMP has arrested a minor in Ontario on ISIS-related terrorism charges amid a surge in youth radicalization that is concerning security officials.
The arrest occurred on Nov. 4 but was only announced on Tuesday in an RCMP news release that revealed he had been charged with two terrorism offences.
The youth, who cannot be named because he is under 18, had allegedly edited and posted ISIS propaganda videos, according to the RCMP statement.
He was also accused of “inviting a person to provide property, i.e., firearms,” with the intention that it would be used to carry out terrorist activity.
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