MONTREAL | A Boucherville man, André Audet, 62, is accused of encouraging genocide following threats published on the web targeting Prime Minister Trudeau and the Muslim community.
“It is presumed that André Audet was using various pseudonyms on several social networks,” said the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) when announcing this development in the file of the individual, against whom certain other charges were laid last December. Investigators identified a hundred hateful, threatening and / or violent incitement publications on the targeted accounts. In particular, the accused incited the death of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and encouraged the eradication of Muslims. “
André Audet is scheduled to appear again on Monday at the Longueuil courthouse. In total, four charges are on his file, the RCMP said on Monday: “encouraging genocide, public incitement to hatred, deliberately promoting hatred and intimidation of a person associated with the justice system or of a journalist” .
The facts of which he is alleged to have allegedly occurred during 2019.
According to the RCMP, this is the first time in Quebec that one of its investigations has led to charges of encouraging genocide against a person.
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