The Royal Canadian mounted police have arrested and charged a 45-year-old male resident of Québec City over Facebook posts where he threatened to murder Prime Minister Mark Carney and White people more generally, blaming them for a death in his family.
The RCMP announced on Friday that its Eastern Region policing division had arrested and laid charges against Ousmane Bah for “uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm to a person” and for “willfully promoting hatred against an identifiable group,” making him potentially the first person in Canada to be charged for hatred against White people.
A look at Bah’s Facebook page shows that the man blamed all White people for the alleged actions of some individuals and the federal government for the alleged mishandling of a case that he says resulted in the death of a family member.
Bah then threatened to kill King Charles III, Chief Justice of Canada Richard Wagner, Prime Minister Mark Carney and, in another post, seemingly “the first White people” he sees as “the only solution”.
“White people invited themselves into my family: my mother Aminata Bah has become very very sick, I informed the Federal Court [translated],” he said in a post on Facebook in French. “From now on ... Eye for Eye is the only solution, dead for death of King Charles 3 + Richard Wagner’s death + Mark Carney’s death [translated]”.
In another post, he accused the Court of Quebec, Quebec Premier Christine Fréchette, Carney, Wagner, and the King of Canada of “committing murders in my family.”
He also blamed White people for him losing his 20-year career.
“Whites invited themselves to kill my father in Mid-2006… I should have my revenge on the first white people murder [translated],” he said in French.
Other posts from Bah show him calling leaders of other countries “Adolf Hitler”, and he showed that the Federal Court of Appeal had rejected a complaint he filed against “His Majesty the King.”
So this new loosely defined hate law is going to be very problematic. With the amount of access people have to voice their opinion, every nut bar, mentally deranged person is going to end up charged.. So then what? Put them all in jail?? If police did not have probable cause that a true crime of violence was going to occur, it should not be taken seriously. This bill should be rewritten or repealed.
Ousmane Bah, a good traditional Quebec name. At least for this past decade. Definitely one who is at those maple trees tapping and rendering like his ancestors.