Man with al-Qaeda ties likely to plead guilty to terror offence in Montreal, says lawyer

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jul 14, 2025 3:20 PM EDT | Last Updated: 5 hours ago

A antheral with ties to al-Qaeda who allegedly threatened to weaponry nationalist transit has waived his close to a bail hearing.

Mohamed Abdullah Warsame, 51, appeared successful tribunal by video league from the Rivière-des-Prairies detention centre successful Montreal.

Warsame has been charged with uttering threats aft allegedly telling an worker astatine a Montreal stateless structure helium wanted to physique bombs and detonate them connected nationalist transit.

Last week a national authoritative invoked a little-used proviso connected coercion successful the Criminal Code that could effect successful Warsame receiving a condemnation of beingness successful prison, if helium is recovered guilty.

His lawyer Vincent Petit told Quebec tribunal Judge Joëlle Roy determination is simply a "realistic probability" Warsame volition plead guilty.

Warsame was ordered detained, and his adjacent tribunal day is scheduled for Oct. 1.

The RCMP said Warsame pleaded blameworthy successful Minnesota successful 2009 to providing worldly enactment to the violent enactment al-Qaeda.