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RSS FeedsToronto police investigate death threats made against Syrian restaurant owners
(The Star Science)

 
 

10 october 2019 05:42:54

 
Toronto police investigate death threats made against Syrian restaurant owners
(The Star Science)
 


Toronto police are investigating death threats against local Syrian restaurateurs who reportedly fielded a “magnitude of hate” from across the globe in response to their son’s presence at a political protest.“We take this issue quite seriously,” Const. Rob Reid told the Toronto Star, “so we’re quite grateful the family has chosen to make a report with us, finally.”Detectives with 14 Division’s criminal investigation bureau and the city’s intelligence hate crime section have been assigned to the case, Reid said. The Alsoufi family filed the complaint with police on Wednesday afternoon — a day after announcing they were closing Soufi’s restaurant on Queen Street West, which had been celebrated locally and internationally not just for its food but as evidence of the success of Canada’s refugee resettlement program after its opening in 2017.Husam and Shahnaz Alsoufi came to Canada after they and their three children were sponsored by a community group in 2015. Soufi’s was among the restaurants profiled in a New York Times story last year showcasing the budding Syrian culinary scene in Greater Toronto. It has also been featured in Toronto Life, Now Magazine and the Star.But when one of the Alsoufi’s sons, Alaa, attended a Hamilton fundraiser for People’s Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier on Sept. 29 wearing a face mask, a new storyline emerged.A video that went viral showed a group blocking an older woman using a walker from entering the event at Mohawk College. Some protesters could be heard shouting Nazi slurs at people trying to enter the venue, including the elder woman.Hamilton police are investigating the incident.Within 24 hours of the protest, social media users across the globe shared the video and created new ones that described Alaa Alsoufi as an “antifa terrorist” and criminal. They found and published his personal photos and the address of his ...


 
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