Columbia University is colluding with the far-right in its attack on students

[laughing dog]

The case seems very iffy. I'm not clicking your link due to likely bias, so I have no idea if it includes what is in the CBC article about the case in 2023. Canada isn't exactly the LCD of morality, so they aren't the best target for claiming they'd protect a murderer. After all, they did arrest him, he was extradited to France. France's own case fell apart.

He was arrested by the RCMP in November 2008 and placed under strict bail conditions until he was extradited to France in 2014. He spent more than three years in prison in France before the case against him collapsed.

He was released in January 2018 after two French judges ruled the evidence against him wasn't strong enough to take to trial. He was never formally charged.

This doesn't mean he isn't guilty, but there seem to be legal issues with the trial.

Compare the two articles.

The one I posted said he was "released to house arrest", not that the case fell apart.

He was tried “in absentia” which is sufficient in my view to suggest less than a fair trial.

The fact that he fled house arrest makes me not too bothered with the tried in absentia bit.

Sure, why be concerned about the fairness of trial fir a suspected terrorist who is a Muslim?

 

[Derec]

More nonsense at US universities.

4 University of Rochester students arrested over 'wanted' posters targeting Jewish staff members

Four students were arrested on felony charges after buildings at the University of Rochester in New York were defaced with "wanted" posters targeting several Jewish faculty members, officials said.
The four students were charged with felony criminal mischief and a fifth is being investigated, Quchee Collins, the university public safety chief, said in a news release Tuesday.
The posters named certain university staff members and professors, alleging war crimes related to the conflict in Gaza, NBC affiliate WHEC of Rochester reported.
Collins said that the incident does not “meet the legal threshold for being a hate crime” but that that could change “over the course of the legal proceedings.”