Winnipeg man facing terrorism charges denied bail

Cameron MacLean · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 28, 2025 5:18 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

A 19-year-old Winnipeg antheral facing four terrorism charges has been denied bail.

Nevin Thunder Young appeared successful provincial tribunal successful Winnipeg connected Monday afternoon, wearing glasses with a beard covering his chin, looking bladed successful an oversized grey sweater.

He spoke concisely to his lawyer but did not code the hearing, which lasted astir 10 minutes.

Members of Young's household cried aft provincial tribunal Judge Brent Stewart gave his decision.

Details of the bail proceeding are nether a court-imposed work ban. 

As CBC News antecedently reported, Young was arrested successful January and charged with 26 counts of mischief nether $5,000.

He's accused of spray-painting racist and antisemitic graffiti successful the Charleswood area.

RCMP aboriginal charged him with coercion offences for alleged engagement successful an planetary extremist radical known arsenic MKY.

Canadian coercion instrumentality shifts the load of impervious successful bail hearings from the Crown to the defence, meaning the accused indispensable person the tribunal that they bash not airs a hazard to the nationalist if released. Normally, the Crown indispensable reason wherefore a tribunal should contradict an accused idiosyncratic bail.

Young's grandma Alice Nepinak told CBC News successful an interrogation Monday that her grandson has ADHD, planetary developmental delay and struggles with anger.

"To maine he's 12 [years old]. He's not a mature young antheral of 19 arsenic to the modular people," she said.

"He's similar a Grade 6 maturity level, truthful radical don't recognize that, and they person to. But I don't cognize however to get the rage retired of my grandson. And if helium didn't person that rage, helium astir apt wouldn't person got into this benignant of occupation that he's gotten into."

With his bail denied, Young indispensable stay successful custody until his trial.

Nepinak says she worries astir his intelligence wellness and information portion successful jail.

Another tribunal proceeding has been acceptable for May 26.

The abbreviation MKY comes from the Russian for "maniac execution cult," according to the Global Network connected Extremism and Technology. It besides goes by different names, including "Maniacs: Cult of Killing," "MMC" and "MKU."

Originating successful Russia and Ukraine, it present has members astir the world. 

Members person expressed enactment for neo-Nazi beliefs that promote unit toward Jewish radical and different groups.