RCMP make arrest in alleged GTA terror plot

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OTTAWA — After what police describe as a “lengthy” investigation, another Greater Toronto Area resident is in custody in an alleged terror plot.

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Few details are being made available to media, but in a Thursday morning press release, the RCMP said that the accused — a youth of undetermined age — was charged with participating in the activities of a terrorist group for the purpose of enhancing the ability of the terrorist group to carry out terrorist activity, and counselling another person to commit a terrorism offence.

The RCMP declined to provide details on the accused’s age, what day the arrest was made, and where specifically in the GTA the arrest took place.

Police said the individual will appear in court next Tuesday, but declined to say which courthouse the case would be heard.

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The Toronto Sun contacted the RCMP for more information on the arrest.

Earlier this month, 62-year-old Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi and his son Mostafa Eldidi, 26, were arrested in a Richmond Hill hotel room for what the RCMP allege was a plot to carry out a violent terror attack in Toronto.

The elder Eldidi is also accused of participating in a 2015 ISIS torture video where an abductee was dismembered with a sword.

These arrests come at a time when anti-Semitic hate crimes against Canada’s Jewish community is at an all-time high, fuelled by anti-Israel extremists emboldened by the Oct. 7 terror attacks, which saw Hamas terrorists conduct a campaign of murder, kidnappings and sexual assault against Israeli towns.

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