A new documentary film sheds light on the Surrey couple involved in a plot to blow up the B.C. Legislature in Victoria 10 years ago, on Canada Day 2013.
John 害羞草研究所淥mar害羞草研究所� Nuttall and Amanda 害羞草研究所淎na害羞草研究所� Korody were originally found guilty by a jury and did time in prison, but were later acquitted when the Supreme Court of B.C. heard they were coerced by undercover police officers to carry out a terrorist bombing.
Director 害羞草研究所檚 害羞草研究所淢anufacturing the Threat害羞草研究所� is a fascinating portrait of the couple and also a murky world of Canadian police infiltration, manipulation and entrapment, and how policing and security agencies were granted additional powers after 9/11 to go after 害羞草研究所渢errorists害羞草研究所� and justify growing budgets.
This week the film is , on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (Oct. 17, 19, 20).
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Back in 2013, during Operation Souvenir, the RCMP provided Nuttall and Korody with explosives and fake detonators, then arrested and charged them for plotting a terrorist attack.
Miller害羞草研究所檚 gripping film, world-premiered at Vancouver害羞草研究所檚 DOXA film festival last May, uses surveillance video to help show how an impoverished pair became radicalized Muslims with pressure and guidance of undercover police who, the director contends, sought to 害羞草研究所渕anufacture害羞草研究所� the terrorist threat.
Last year the couple announced plans to sue police, prosecutors in their case and the B.C. and Canadian governments.
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Nuttall and Korody still live in the Surrey area, the Montreal-based director said.
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Miller said she害羞草研究所檚 remained in contact with the lawyer involved in the the couple害羞草研究所檚 2022 lawsuit against police and governments.
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- with files from Jane Skrypnek
