Father, son facing terrorism charges in alleged Toronto plot to stand trial in 2026

A begetter and lad accused of readying an ISIS-inspired wide execution successful Toronto person been ordered to basal proceedings adjacent year.

Lawyers for Ahmed and Mostafa Eldidi appeared successful Superior Court successful Newmarket, Ont., this morning. The tribunal scheduled a six-week assemblage trial, to statesman Sept. 8, 2026.

The RCMP said the accused were "in the precocious stages of readying a serious, convulsive attack" erstwhile the men were arrested with an axe and a machete successful a Richmond Hill edifice successful July 2024.

Ahmed Eldidi and his lad Mostafa 27, some look a complaint of conspiracy to perpetrate murder, arsenic good arsenic coercion offences.

Ahmed Eldidi, 63, separately faces warfare crimes charges successful transportation with an ISIS propaganda video showing a antheral dismembering a captive successful 2015. A abstracted proceedings connected those charges, expected to past astir 5 weeks, has been scheduled for Nov. 9, 2026.

The RCMP said it marked the archetypal nationalist information probe wherever warfare crimes charges person been laid successful Canada.

Lawyers for some Eldidis are scheduled to instrumentality to tribunal connected June 27 at 9 am. Both accused stay successful custody.