Overview

• Mohamed Abdullah Warsame waived his right to a bail hearing on July 14 and was ordered detained by Judge Joelle Roy during a video conference appearance.
• His lawyer, Vincent Petit, told the court there is a realistic probability he will plead guilty to uttering threats alleging he planned to bomb Montreal’s public transit.
• Prosecutor Samuel Monfette-Tessier invoked a rarely used terrorism provision that elevates the uttering threats charge to a terror offence and could expose Warsame to a life sentence.
• Warsame declined to appear in person at his next hearing set for October 1 and will attend by video conference from the Rivière-des-Prairies detention centre.
• He pleaded guilty in Minnesota in 2009 to providing material support to al-Qaida and was deported to Canada in 2010 after his U.S. conviction.