Ex-University of Waterloo student sentenced to 11 years in prison for classroom stabbings

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The erstwhile University of Waterloo, Ont., pupil who pleaded blameworthy to stabbing respective radical in a gender-studies people successful 2023 connected Monday was sentenced to 11 years successful prison. The justice successful Kitchener said his actions did not magnitude to terrorism, but constituted a "particularly sedate hatred crime."

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Members of the Waterloo Regional Police analyse the University of Waterloo schoolroom stabbings connected June 28, 2023, successful this record photo. The antheral who pleaded blameworthy successful the onslaught was sentenced successful a Kitchener courtroom connected Monday. (Nick Iwanyshyn/The Canadian Press)

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The erstwhile University of Waterloo, Ont., pupil who pleaded blameworthy to a  stabbing rampage in a gender-studies people successful 2023 connected Monday was sentenced to 11 years successful situation erstwhile helium appeared successful a Kitchener court.

Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, 25, volition not beryllium charged with terrorism, but the judge called his actions a "particularly sedate hatred crime."

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