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Nathaniel Veltman, 20, was arrested on Sunday in a shopping mall parking lot in London, Ontario, not far from the city’s oldest mosque. Police said he appeared to be wearing an armored vest and helmet at the time.

Wiltmann will appear in court on Monday and faces four first-degree murder charges and one attempted murder charge.

The police stated that they did not know that Veltman was connected to any hate group, but added that they are still investigating and Terrorist accusation Under consideration.

London Police Chief Steve Williams told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that in order to ensure the integrity of the judicial process, very little information is disclosed.

“We must protect this information to ensure that court proceedings are not affected by anything we do or say now,” Williams said.

A family of fourSpanning three generations, they died when they were run over by trucks when they went for a walk near their home.

Relatives identified the dead as 46-year-old Salman Afzaal, his 44-year-old wife Madiha Salman, their 15-year-old daughter Yumna Salman, and her 74-year-old grandmother Talat Afzaal. The couple’s son, nine-year-old Fayez, was seriously injured but is expected to recover.

Hasan Savehilaghi, the president of a taxi company, recounted the detailed information provided by a driver at the scene of the arrest. He said: “The front of the pickup truck was severely damaged” and it was covered with stains. Blood.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau lays flowers at a vigil outside a Muslim mosque in London [Nathan Denette/Pool via Reuters]

Savihiraj said that when the suspect was dragged from the truck by the police, he was chanting slogans, but his words were not clear. Wiltman yelled at the taxi driver to film the arrest process.

“He enjoys the scene very much, as it is important to him to be recorded,” Savihiraj said.

On Tuesday, the Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau Called the killing a “terrorist attack” and promised to fight far-right groups and online hatred.

“I was shocked and terrified to hear the unspeakable crime committed last weekend,” Mark Veltman, the father of the attacker, said in an email on Thursday.

“There is no word that can properly express my deep condolences for the victims of this meaningless behavior,” he added.

Some details of Wittman’s life have been exposed.

Veltman works part-time in an egg packaging plant in Strathroy, Ontario, near London. According to the London Liberty News, his neighbor in an apartment in central London said that he often heard high-volume video games late at night. London is roughly between Toronto and Detroit.

Sunday’s incident was the worst attack on Canadian Muslims since a man shot six members of a mosque in Quebec City in 2017.

At the same time, the world’s largest Muslim-majority national group with 57 national members strongly condemned what it described as “heinous terrorist attacks committed by extremists against Canadian Muslim families”.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation calls on the authorities to take the necessary precautions to resolve the problem of anti-Muslim hatred, which it says is spreading in many Muslim minority countries. In a statement issued on Thursday, the Organization of the Islamic Conference once again called on the United Nations and other global agencies to declare March 15 as a day against Islamophobia and intolerance of Muslims.