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Quebec City, October 1, 2025.- The Superior Court of Quebec today sentenced Gerald Nicolas to five years in prison for planning terrorist acts aimed at overthrowing the Haitian government.
Nicolas, 54 years old and resident in Lévis, Quebec, had been convicted last March of three federal charges, including facilitating terrorist activity and leaving Canada for that purpose, reports Newswire.
The newspaper confirmed that, according to the indictment, between 2020 and 2021, he traveled to the Dominican Republic and Haiti to recruit supporters, acquire weapons and rent land close to the border to establish an operational base.
Louis Dionne, judge of the Superior Court, motivated the sentence by stressing the seriousness of the plot involved and the importance of sending a message of firmness to anyone who would attempt to destabilize a foreign government.
According to the newspaper CJME (Quebec), the defence's application, which pleaded for a lighter sentence or community work, was rejected. The federal prosecutor had requested an eight-year sentence. The case had emerged when the Lévis police, in investigating a complaint concerning the dissemination of personal images, discovered documents detailing his revolutionary project in Nicolas's aircraft.
CJME also confirmed that Nicolas, as the last word, claimed to have acted out of personal conviction, with the aim of « Relieving suffering » of the Haitian population. Under Canadian law, he must serve at least half of his sentence before he can apply for parole.
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