MONTREAL — A teenager’s terrorism trial is hearing he had reported links to a jihadist sympathizer who killed a Canadian Forces soldier near Montreal last October.
The teen’s trial before Quebec youth court heard today that police met with him a few hours after Martin Couture-Rouleau’s attack in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu.
Couture-Rouleau deliberately drove a car into two soldiers, killing Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent and injuring another before being fatally shot by police.
A detective who testifed today attempted to make a link between the two as the teen was found with Couture-Rouleau’s phone number in his pocket.
That meeting took place at a detention centre where the teen was being held for armed robbery in a convenience store.
The teen, who cannot be named because he is a minor, faces two charges: committing a robbery for the benefit of an unspecified terrorist organization and planning to leave Canada to participate in the activities of a terrorist group abroad.
The trial, which began this week, is continuing in a Montreal youth courtroom.
He has already pleaded guilty to the robbery charge.