Overview

• Psychiatric evaluators at the Philippe-Pinel Institute concluded the accused was likely experiencing schizophrenia and could not appreciate the wrongfulness of his actions.
• The assessment said an antisemitic motive was improbable, though video showed the attacker throwing the victim’s kippah into a splash pad.
• The accused remains in hospital custody at Montreal General Hospital, and oversight has shifted to Quebec’s Commission d’examen des troubles mentaux for risk review and potential conditions.
• The Aug. 8 assault at Dickie-Moore Park in Parc-Extension was filmed and led to an assault causing bodily harm charge against Sergio Yanes Preciado.
• The video drew swift condemnation from Prime Minister Mark Carney and Quebec Premier François Legault, while Israel’s foreign minister and Canadian Jewish groups criticized the outcome as minimizing antisemitic violence.