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In Canada, condemned the teenager for trying to run over to the Islamists in Syria

В Канаде осудили подростка за попытку сбежать к исламистам в Сирию

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In Canada a 16 year old teen sentenced to two years in prison for attempting to escape to the Islamists in Syria. On Wednesday, April 6, according to Reuters.

Teen found guilty of committing offences in the interest or at the direction of a terrorist group and attempting to leave Canada to participate in terrorist activities, the report said canadian prosecutors. However, he confessed to the robbery of the shop in 2014, but refused to plead guilty in an attempt to use the stolen money to travel to Syria.

On suspicion of the teenager in the police said his father once discovered in the back yard sack, in which was a mask, a knife and money.

According to authorities, the family immigrated to Canada from Algeria in 2003.

In 2011, Syria has descended into civil war — the government of President Bashar al-Assad face a heavily armed group of secular and Islamist opposition. During the conflict gained force terrorist organizations, including the banned in Russia “Dzhabhat EN-Nusra” and “Islamic state” seized part of the territory of the country and of neighbouring Iraq.

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