Canada Arrests 10 over Intending to Join ISIL
KABUL: (Middle East Press) 10 young people have been arrested by Canadian police as they allegedly tried to leave the country to join the so-called ISIL terrorist group, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) said Tuesday.
RCMP officers confiscated the suspects’ passports and questioned them along with their families and friends, the statement said, adding that the investigation is continuing.
A lawyer for one of the detainees told Radio-Canada that his client is a “victim,” who was approached online by an ISIL recruiter and was promised “a better life.”
The arrests come months after five boys and two girls from the Montreal area left the country and apparently joined ISIL.
