Canada van attacker appeals conviction for pedestrians’ murders


Police patrol Yonge Street in northern Toronto, Canada, April 23, 2018. Canadian Alek Minassian, who rammed his rental van into a crowd of pedestrians in downtown Toronto, is appealing against his conviction for 26 murders and attempted murders. – EPA pic, July 16, 2022.

A CANADIAN man who rammed his rental van into a crowd of pedestrians in downtown Toronto is appealing against his conviction for 26 murders and attempted murders, court documents showed yesterday.

Alek Minassian, who was 25 at the time of the 2018 attack, was found guilty and last month sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years.


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