Alek Minassian, 25 years old at the time of the attack, was found guilty by a Canadian judge just over a year ago, in March 2021.
On April 23, 2018, at the wheel of a rented white van, he crushed bystanders on the roads and platforms of the Canadian capital at full speed.
Eleven people died and 16 were injured.
It was the worst attack to date in Toronto, an agglomeration of 6 million people.
The sentence comes less than three weeks after the Supreme Court of Canada annulled the accumulation of punishment for murderers, a provision of the penal code that authorized since 2011 to inflict extremely long sentences on those who kill numerous people.
The court then concluded that a prison sentence that “widely exceeds the life expectancy of every human person is denigrating due to its absurdity and (…) contrary to human dignity.”
“I’m not satisfied at all,” Elwood Delaney, a relative of one of the victims, said Monday as he left the courthouse.
Minassian “was sitting there, he didn’t show any emotion and he barely looked at the people,” lamented the man who lost his grandmother in the attack, and who says he feels “a lot of anger towards that man.”
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