Canadian White Nationalist Convicted of Murder in 2021 Truck Attack on Muslim Family

Nathaniel Veltman, who expressed anti-Muslim sentiments in a far-right manifesto, faces life imprisonment for the deadliest attack on Canada's Muslim community since 2017.

• Nathaniel Veltman, a 22-year-old Canadian man, has been found guilty of murdering four members of a Muslim family in a truck attack in 2021.
• The attack, inspired by white nationalist beliefs, left three generations of the family dead and the couple's nine-year-old son seriously injured.
• Prosecutors called the attack an act of 'terrorism', and Veltman, convicted on four counts of first-degree murder and one of attempted murder, faces life imprisonment with no chance for parole for 25 years.
• Veltman had written a far-right manifesto in which he expressed his hatred of Islam and opposition to mass immigration and multiculturalism.
• The attack was the deadliest against Canada's Muslim community since 2017 when a man gunned down six people in a Quebec City mosque.

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