Father, son facing terrorism charges in alleged Toronto plot to stand trial in 2026

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A begetter and lad accused of readying an ISIS-inspired wide execution successful Toronto person been ordered to basal proceedings adjacent year.

Accused were 'in the precocious stages of readying a serious, convulsive attack' erstwhile arrested successful 2024: RCMP

Thomas Daigle · CBC News

· Posted: Jun 20, 2025 1:28 PM EDT | Last Updated: 6 hours ago

Mostafa Eldidi (son) and Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi (father) look virtually successful a Newmarket, Ont., courtroom connected Aug. 28, 2024.

A begetter and lad accused of readying an ISIS-inspired wide execution successful Toronto person been ordered to basal proceedings adjacent year.

Lawyers for Ahmed and Mostafa Eldidi appeared successful Superior Court successful Newmarket, Ont., this morning. The tribunal scheduled a six-week assemblage trial, to statesman Sept. 8, 2026.

The RCMP said the accused were "in the precocious stages of readying a serious, convulsive attack" erstwhile the men were arrested with an axe and a machete successful a Richmond Hill edifice successful July 2024.

Ahmed Eldidi and his lad Mostafa 27, some look a complaint of conspiracy to perpetrate murder, arsenic good arsenic coercion offences.

Police declined to accidental which radical was the people of the alleged plot, but Jewish advocacy enactment B'nai Brith Canada and an Ontario Conservative MP person suggested the program progressive an onslaught connected Jews.

"We were wrong a hair's breadth — minutes, hours oregon perchance days distant — of a wide casualty lawsuit connected the Toronto Jewish community," MP Larry Brock said past year at a gathering of the House of Commons nationalist information and nationalist information committee.

Both accused, who lived successful a detached location successful the eastbound Toronto territory of Scarborough, deny wrongdoing.

WATCH | Ahmed Eldidi faces uncommon warfare crimes charges:

Man accused of readying Toronto ISIS onslaught faces warfare transgression charges

Ahmed Eldidi, a Toronto antheral accused of plotting an ISIS-inspired wide execution with his son, Mostafa Eldidi, is besides facing 4 warfare transgression charges for offences that allegedly occurred earlier helium came to Canada and was granted citizenship.

Ahmed Eldidi, 63, besides faces warfare crimes charges successful transportation with an ISIS propaganda video recorded successful Iraq. A abstracted proceedings connected those charges, expected to past astir 5 weeks, has been scheduled for Nov. 9, 2026.

A report released this week by Canadian spy bureau CSIS confirmed the further charges stem from allegations the elder Eldidi was seen "dismembering a prisoner" of ISIS successful 2015. The RCMP said the lawsuit marked the archetypal nationalist information probe wherever warfare crimes charges person been laid successful Canada.

Records released by a parliamentary committee amusement some Eldidis were calved successful Egypt.

Ahmed Eldidi made an asylum assertion successful 2018 and was granted citizenship successful May 2024. The pursuing month, CSIS said it became alert of a "potential nationalist information menace posed" by the father.

A bearded antheral successful a greenish garment sits successful a van.

Mostafa Eldidi came to Canada arsenic an asylum seeker in 2020 and was granted exile presumption 2 years later. He does not clasp Canadian citizenship.

Uproar implicit the lawsuit prompted then-public information curate Dominic LeBlanc to bid a review of the national government's migration screening process successful 2024. CSIS said the reappraisal is inactive ongoing.

Lawyers for some Eldidis are scheduled to instrumentality to tribunal connected June 27 at 9 am. Both accused stay successful custody.

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