Man sentenced to life after Canadian judge says incel-inspired attack was terrorism

A Toronto court sentenced a Canadian man to life imprisonment in a deadly stabbing attack at a massage parlor, in a landmark case that saw a Canadian judge designating an incel-inspired crime as terrorism for the first time.

The defendant, Oguzhan Sert, carried out his February 2020 attack “after extensively researching the incel culture,” Justice Sukhail Akhtar said Tuesday, according to the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. “He sought it out, he accepted it and he acted upon it,” the judge said, adding that he did not believe Sert’s claims that he was brainwashed by the ideology.