China News Agency, Toronto, March 10 (Reporter Yu Ruidong) A man who broke into the Canadian Government House with weapons in early July last year and tried to threaten Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau was sentenced to 6 by the Ontario Provincial Court in Ottawa on March 10. Years in prison.
The court judged the defendant's detention time as a one-year sentence, so he still has to serve five years in prison.
At the same time, the defendant was sentenced to a lifetime ban on possessing any firearms, ammunition or explosives.
Data map: Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau.
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Corey Hurren, a 46-year-old man from Manitoba in central Canada, drove a pickup truck alone and broke into the main pedestrian entrance of the Governor's Palace in the early morning of July 2 last year. He then abandoned his car and carried weapons. walk.
The police officers arrived at the scene and started a conversation with him and arrested him.
The defendant was a member of the Rangers under the Canadian Reserve Forces and a small business owner of a meat factory.
The defendant has earlier pleaded guilty to multiple charges of possession of prohibited or restricted guns, as well as allegations of "misconduct" caused by smashing the gate of the Governor's Mansion.
He admitted during the trial that he tried to catch Trudeau while attending a regular live press conference because of the Canadian government's restrictions and prohibitions on the use of assault guns.
According to Canadian News Agency and Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reports, the judge believed that the defendant carried out an armed attack with the intention of intimidating the elected government out of political motives, and did not show remorse.
At the time of the incident, the then Governor Julie Payette, Prime Minister Trudeau and his family were not in the Governor's Mansion.
After becoming Prime Minister of Canada in 2015, Trudeau did not live in the former prime minister's residence, which is not far from the Government House but has been seriously aging, but has been living with his family in the Government House compound.
In November 1995, a man entered the Canadian prime minister's residence with a knife and approached the bedroom of then Prime Minister Chretien. The prime minister's wife Irene closed the door in time and called the police.
In August 2010, a man was arrested when he lit a flammable liquid on the sidewalk outside the residence of Prime Minister Harper.
On October 22, 2014, a gunman shot and killed a soldier and broke into the Canadian Parliament Building, wounded a guard, and was shot dead.
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