Terrorist plot: the american justice calls for life in prison for a Canadian

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Saturday, march 10, 2018 08:22

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The us prosecutors are demanding life in prison for Abdulrahman El-Bahnasawy, Ontario 20-year-old accused of plotting to commit a terrorist attack in New York, in 2016.

“He has worked with high-ranking members of the islamic State to establish a terrorist attack in New York and it has taken many steps in order to make this gesture,” wrote one of the prosecutors in a report, reported Global News.

According to prosecutors, El-Bahnasawy, a native of Kuwait, has written of the threats to the United States on the wall of his prison cell, while he was detained pending his trial.

His family claims that he was struggling with issues of mental health and addiction, and demanded, therefore, a short sentence for it to be processed in Canada. Due to threats that he had written, and the severity of the actions that he wanted to commit, prosecutors have deemed the request inadmissible.

El-Bahnasawy has pleaded guilty in 2016 to seven counts related to terrorism. He must receive his or her award on the 9th of April next.