MONTREAL—Police discovered the instructions and ingredients to make a pressure-cooker bomb in one of the homes of a young Montreal couple suspected of planning to flee the country to join Daesh in 2015, according to newly released court documents.In the case against El Mehdi Jamali and Sabrine Djermane, police searched Jamali’s family home and found duct tape, nails, batteries and superglue they alleged were to be used to make a bomb inside a plastic Dollarama bag, the police affidavit said. In Djermane’s apartment, they allegedly discovered the hand-written instructions to make a bomb identical to the ones used in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing.Eighteen years old at the time, the couple was part of a wave of young Quebec Muslims who disappeared or allegedly tried to leave the country to join the Islamic terrorist group Daesh in early 2015. Like several others, the couple frequented a mosque run by Adil Charkaoui, a Muslim preacher once suspected by the federal government of being an Al-Qaeda sleeper agent.Now aged 20 and being held in pre-trial custody, Jamali and Djermane are charged with trying to leave Canada to join a terrorist group; possession of explosives; facilitating a terrorist activity; and committing an offence for a terrorist group. The trial is scheduled to begin later this year.The new details on the case are contained in more than 30 search warrant applications that were partially unsealed Thursday by a Quebec court judge. The affidavits of RCMP investigators outline the evidence which indicates a crime may have been committed. That evidence has not been tested or proven in court.The RCMP were initially tipped off to the couple’s activities by Djermane’s younger sister, Fatiha, who had attended a conference in Ottawa on the subject of radicalization and believed that she recognized the tell-tale signs in her sister’s behaviour.The sister told investigators that Djermane had recently moved out of the f ...
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