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Canadian police studying cryptic message of suspect in deadly van attack

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Canadian police studying cryptic message of suspect in deadly van attack

The police in Canada are studying a cryptic message posted on the Facebook page of Alek Minassian, 25, the suspect who deliberately ploughed his rented white Ryder rental van into a lunch-hour crowd killing 10 people and injuring 15 others in the process.

According to findings by the police, the suspect left a “cryptic message” on social media before his attack that referenced an “incel rebellion.”

The term is shorthand used in some online message boards for “involuntary celibacy”, a loose social media movement of men who blame women for their celibacy.

Police findings also revealed that the post also voiced admiration for a man who killed six college students before taking his own life in California in 2014 and who cited the “cruelness of women” for his virgin status.

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“The accused is alleged to have posted a cryptic message on Facebook minutes before” the attack, Graham Gibson, a Toronto police detective sergeant, told a news conference. The majority of the victims were women, ranging in age from their mid-20s to early 80s, Gibson said.

Canadian police said the suspect rammed his rented van into customers at a busy sidewalk in Toronto, Canada, along a roughly mile-long (1.6-km) stretch of sidewalk thronged with pedestrians during the attack.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau described the brutal incident regarded as one of the most violent in recent history of the country as “tragic and senseless attack”.

 

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