A new documentary film sheds light on the Surrey couple involved in a plot to blow up the B.C. Legislature in Victoria 10 years ago, on Canada Day 2013.
John 香蕉视频直播淥mar香蕉视频直播 Nuttall and Amanda 香蕉视频直播淎na香蕉视频直播 Korody were originally found guilty by a jury and did time in prison, but were later acquitted when the Supreme Court of B.C. heard they were coerced by undercover police officers to carry out a terrorist bombing.
Director 香蕉视频直播檚 香蕉视频直播淢anufacturing the Threat香蕉视频直播 is a fascinating portrait of the couple and also a murky world of Canadian police infiltration, manipulation and entrapment, and how policing and security agencies were granted additional powers after 9/11 to go after 香蕉视频直播渢errorists香蕉视频直播 and justify growing budgets.
This week the film is , on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (Oct. 17, 19, 20).
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Back in 2013, during Operation Souvenir, the RCMP provided Nuttall and Korody with explosives and fake detonators, then arrested and charged them for plotting a terrorist attack.
Miller香蕉视频直播檚 gripping film, world-premiered at Vancouver香蕉视频直播檚 DOXA film festival last May, uses surveillance video to help show how an impoverished pair became radicalized Muslims with pressure and guidance of undercover police who, the director contends, sought to 香蕉视频直播渕anufacture香蕉视频直播 the terrorist threat.
Last year the couple announced plans to sue police, prosecutors in their case and the B.C. and Canadian governments.
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Nuttall and Korody still live in the Surrey area, the Montreal-based director said.
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Miller said she香蕉视频直播檚 remained in contact with the lawyer involved in the the couple香蕉视频直播檚 2022 lawsuit against police and governments.
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Miller says DOXA is the only 香蕉视频直播渂ig festival香蕉视频直播 in Canada to have welcomed the film, to date, and she香蕉视频直播檚 not entirely sure why.
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- with files from Jane Skrypnek