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

A court in Toronto sentenced a Canadian man to life imprisonment for a fatal stabbing at a massage parlor, with a Canadian judge for the first time designating an incel-inspired crime as terrorism.

The defendant, Oguzhan Sert, carried out his February 2020 attack “after extensively researching the incel culture,” Ontario Superior Court Justice Suhail 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.