Contract Arson
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A Fifteen-Thousand-Dollar Mission for Three Targets, and the Judge Could Not Conclude He Knew What Two of Them Were: Mohamed Ilyess Akodad Gets Two Years for the Beth Tikvah Fire and Walks in 127 Days (September 10, 2026)
Reported Thursday, September 10, 2026 by La Presse. Judge Karine Giguere of the Cour du Quebec sentenced Mohamed Ilyess Akodad, 20, of Montreal to two years in prison for setting fire to a synagogue and breaking windows at a Jewish community centre belonging to Congregation Beth Tikvah in Dollard-des-Ormeaux in December 2024. Akodad testified he…
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A Nine-Year-Old Woke to Three Hooded Men Beating His Father With a Metal Bar, and the Seventeen-Year-Old Who Was Paid to Do It Got Nothing Because It Was the Wrong Man: Le Soleil Puts the Québec City Contract Economy on the Record (September 9, 2026)
Published Wednesday, September 9, 2026 at 4:01 a.m. by Judith Desmeules and Victoria Baril of Le Soleil, the second instalment of a three-part series that began Tuesday, September 8 at 4:03 a.m. One evening in May 2026, three hooded men broke down the door of an apartment in Sainte-Marie, in the Beauce, and beat a…