Defence for alleged terror propagandist calls prosecution speculative, tenuous

The defence team for an alleged terror propagandist argued Tuesday that the Crown’s case is built on shaky ground, with tenuous links between the accused’s camera and racist videos found online, and shoddy testimony from a Crown expert on right-wing extremism.

Patrick Gordon Macdonald, 27, is charged with participating in the terrorist activity of Atomwaffen Division by helping produce videos and other images, facilitating terrorist activity, and inciting hate against identifiable groups for one or more terrorist entities, including Atomwaffen Division and the neo-Nazi James Mason.

He’s alleged to have done it in 2018 and 2019 at the ages of 20 and 21 in Ottawa, Belleville, Ont., and Saint-Ferdinand, Que., among other places.

He has pleaded not guilty. The allegations against him haven’t been proven.

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