Youth arrested on terrorism charges had cell number for Couture-Rouleau

Youth arrested on terrorism charges had cell number for Couture-Rouleau

by Paul Cherry at the Montreal Gazette

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-boy-arrested-on-terrorism-charges-had-number-of-man-ran-over-soldiers

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The teenager from western Montreal currently on trial for allegedly preparing to leave Canada to take part in terrorist activity abroad communicated with Martin Couture-Rouleau dozens of times before the latter killed a Canadian soldier in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu last year.

The now 16-year-old teenager eventually admitted he had frequent exchanges with Couture-Rouleau during a nearly three-hour interrogation with a member of the Integrated National Security Enforcement Team (INSET) and an investigator with the Sûreté du Québec on Oct. 20. He was questioned, at a youth detention centre in Laval, just hours after Couture-Rouleau used his car to run over two Canadian soldiers in St-Jean-sur-Richelieu including Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent, 53, who died in what the police quickly realized was a terrorist attack.

As the SQ investigated Vincent’s death they learned that Couture-Rouleau had a cellular phone. They then learned that the youth, who had been arrested on Oct. 17 in connection with an armed robbery at a convenience store in western Montreal, had the number for that same cellphone written down on a slip of paper found in a pair of his pants. The national security team was at the time investigating whether the youth held up the convenience store with a knife, to buy a plane ticket, possibly to fly to Syria and join ISIL.

Brahim Soussi, an RCMP investigator with INSET, and SQ detective Simon Desbiens questioned the youth about his links to the 25-year-old Couture-Rouleau. They were concerned Couture-Rouleau, who was fatally shot by police shortly after running over Vincent, was part of a network that might strike again.



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