A man who tried to kill an Edmonton police officer and four civilians on a chaotic night two years ago has been sentenced to 28 years in prison.
Belzil’s verdict concludes a case that featured one of the largest police investigations in Edmonton’s history, and one of its stranger trials. Sharif kept almost totally silent during the trial. He fired his defence lawyers during pretrial proceedings, opting instead to represent himself. Despite that, he never mounted any kind of defence. After each witness, Belzil asked Sharif a painstaking list of questions and offered topics on which he might cross-examine.
Two dog walkers ran over to help. A few seconds later, a man emerged from the Malibu carrying a knife. The man, later revealed to be Sharif, began attacking Chernyk as he lay on the ground. Investigators later pieced together surveillance footage of the chase down Jasper Avenue. The U-Haul weaved through traffic, drove left of centre and ran red lights as bar patrons enjoying their Saturday night crowded the sidewalks.
Sharif grew up in Somalia during a time of war and instability. Sharif’s romantic partner told Postmedia he was twice captured and nearly killed by al-Shabab, the Somali Islamist group. That agreement typically requires a refugee claimant to apply for refugee status in either Canada or the U.S., depending on which country they arrive in first.
“Individual and community fear, indeed terror, fester when residents have no basis on which to assess their level of risk or to take appropriate precautions,” she said.He said he was bothered by Sharif’s demeanour in court. “I sat in there as you did, and I don’t think you saw a lot of emotion. “
Drive him out to the EPS weapons range and shut off the security cameras for 2 min. ProblemSolved
He will die in prison sooner or later.
Look at his face all cut up and stitched. Is that from a jail house beating or police beating? Glad he looks like the way he looks. I know the cops or the inmates beat his A**.
He could be out in 8yrs. We need harsher laws for this type of crime in Canada
ZMGtja
Liberals will have him out on no time!
GGzE
That's it? What the fuck?
That’s a weak ass jawline 💀
He'll be out in 7 and a half and do it all over again. 🇨🇦🇨🇦
From what I have heard is the guy is actually mentally unstable. I'm sure the Judge went easy on him for that reason.
Wish it was longer but I ain't mad at 28 years that is a long time.
He should go back to his own country
So he almost succeeded in murdering 5 people. They were only lucky enough to survive. He could be released in 4 years by the Parole Board. This is a case for the Death Penalty. Terrorists, murderers and major career criminals should be executed.
Capital Punishment or Death Penalty
What's fucked up is if you shoot someone breaking into your home you'd receive the same if not a worse sentence than this. This guy will do 12 years and be back out on the street. Trudeau will probably give him a check as he leaves the prison.
28 god-damn years only, what has the world come to?
'But terrorism is down over the last 50 years.' I wonder why...
They should of beat him more before placing him under arrest. I mean break his legs and say he fell.
Good freakin riddance
You sure Trudeau does not want to let him out now and give him 11M?
Justice should have been a shiny right between the eyes, when he attacked those people.
He had an ISIS flag... why are we not just giving him back to his people... I don’t feel like feeding him in his warm jail cell for the next decade... Only for him to be let out on good behaviour, more radicalized then when he was put in... Canada canpoli
Off with his (rag) head ☠️⚔️💀
Life sentence
This fellow is going to cost us over 60 grand a year in housing him, then when he is out we have to support him. Just deport the monster.
Better yet ship him out of the country and dump him somewhere in the mid Atlantic
Should have gotten life with 0% for parole
How long until JustinTrudeau and cafreeland give him $10.5m and an apology?
Sad our white supremacists country did this to him! He is a victim! Too many white people made him angry it's very understandable with our racist culture.
Good!
He deserves life in prison or worse if it were possible. I looked at the news amd almost thought this was a UK sentencing because it’s such a joke.
Frickin terrorists in our country need to be removed and deported Canadians are already paying too much for JustinTrudeau dirty Islamic migrants he’s infiltrating into our ONCE great country to kill us
“Chief Crown prosecutor Shelley Bykewich said the lack of any explanation for the crimes “makes them that much worse.” Pretending to have no idea what motivated him is extremely insulting to our intelligence.
should have got life....
Not enough. Life-actual life behind bars, no parole.
Hang him
Shitbag
Shame that's all he got. He should've immediately been deported back to his country and stood trial there. They would have taken care of him.
Its canada he'll be out in 5.
Missing the one word. TERRORIST say it how it is and let people know there are many more of these wastes walking around our country thanks to JustinTrudeau failed policies for boarder control
He deserve it 👌🏻 and hope he will stay full 28 years in the prison
Naw. We need the death penalty back. This POS deserves the harshest penalty.
I sure hope no one harms this guy in jail lol
Hope this savage gets a taste of vigilante justice in the slammer.
Our Justice system is a joke, young offenders act is a joke. Bring back capital punishment.
Justice prevails.
Terrorism
Better yet send him back to where he came from save the money of incarceration
We need the noose in Canada 🇨🇦 deathpenalty 💀 toughenthelaws cdnpoli
Only!?
..50 years
28 years not enough. That’s okay, he’ll get proper treatment while in there either way.
Let's see -28 yr sentence -3 yrs credit for pre-trial custody -Eligible for full parole after serving 1/3 of sentence -Eligible for unescorted leave after serving 1/6 -Full Parole in 6.3 yrs (or sooner) -Unescorted leave eligibility in 1.5 yrs What a fucking joke. cdnpoli
Put him down. Can allow this brainwashed murderers around
Put him in jail for lifetime
Cocksucker.
Free my nig - he did nothing wrong
'Isis flag owning Somali refugee sentenced to 28 years for Islamic terror attack against Canada' There National Post fixed your headline.
When the GIFT of Canadian Citizenship has been proven to be MISTAKE, the gift should be taken away. Send abdulahiHasanSharif back to Somalia.
Islamists negotiate using violence. & their violence is presented as an argument for their righteousness by 'Jaish e Seculars'. Be it Kashmir, Godhra, Mumbai or any other place. & It is done by the same gang that invokes Gandhi 24*7
Canada’s so liberal they won’t even give him a terrorist charge which is obvious .. he had a damn isis flag
Put Meng wangzou in there with him
Out in 7?
Wow Edmonton Judges dont mess around. You can kill 10 people in Toronto and only get 25 years minus time served plus 2 4 1 pretty much 10 years.
Deport
It should be LIFE in jail.
I don’t think it’s very fair honestly. If they’re going to give him 28 years they should at least let him murder the cop for real
Fantastic. Its too bad he wasnt ended
Then after 28 years he should be sent to loony bin for the rest of this life
Harsh sentence if he’s black. Love it!I love how white justice system is automatically throwing kids into prison and throw the key away. Then they free their white serial murderers who already took many lives, 10 years. Do you people remember Homolka? Free& enjoy life in Hawaii
Not long enough.
How is this sentence not 100+ years. What an absolute joke. 28 years for attempting to kill 4 people + police officer. That's 5.6 years per person. That's not justice; that's pathetic.
Call me a bigot, but wouldn't this warrant deportation?
Something is broken in our country. Sharif was somehow able to get and keep his refugee status despite being investigated for extremism. He leaves his homeland of Somalia for the U.S to which they had plans to deport him. Then he fled to Canada and thanks us by trying to kill us.
Why is he only given 28 years
Thank you diversity! I love the mixture of cultures that is Canada!
The absolute worst of humanity.
And $10M upon his early release
10 years for mowing over 4 pedestrians? Seems reasonable. Good job Canada justice system🙄
Not enough.
No where near enough time in jail. He should never get out
That's it?
Canada needs a death sentence for unremorseful scum like this man. He doesn’t give two cents of care for the harm he’s done (this is factual). Why waste so much money and time holding someone like this in prison?
Will spend 2yrs and blackface JustinTrudeau will have a cheque for him and reintegrate him back into society
28 years is pretty long for Canada. Its still only 7 years per murder though. Should be longer Hope he gets fucked up in jail
illegal immigrant, IS terrorist. If only Canada controlled its border and deported illegal immigrants.
So the taxpayer has to take care of this piece of shit for 28 years ?60 000$/ Year × 28 = 1 680 000$ .
Can't he just be deported? To house an inmate costs us like 60 grand a year.
So JustinTrudeau will pay this man $30million to show he loves muslims, right?
When is Trudeau cutting a cheque for 10 M
Great news. But how long till Trudeau intervenes and let’s him out in 2 years with 10 million dollars of tax payers money.
I’m sure JustinTrudeau and the Liberals will pardon him within a year and likely pay him millions for the inconvenience.
He doesn't deserve the luxury of a Canadian prison, send him home.
Lol 😂
...And with time served he is eligible for parole yesterday.
The Alberta Review Board will have him out of jail soon enough.
At what cost to Taxpayers. A length of rope is twenty bucks.....
After 28
Forget jail. Let him live on a northern Manitoba reserve so he knows what hell feels like.
A criminal mind. Best we keep him under close supervision for safety sake.
...
He is going to be out on the streets in 2 years anyway
Should have at least been doubled
Terrorist P.O.S. brought in by the liberals.
Our new country is looking great! 28 years X $115,000 a year = $3,220,000
Im impressed. Not confident in our justice system so I expected him to get something like 4-5 years with full prison education and some deradicalization sessions over coffee and tea.
Trudeau's vision for Canada since 2015.. and well.. look at how bad Canada is now.
Provided he doesn’t end up in a healing lodge, this is fine.
One of trudeau s immigrants
Imbecile...
No one seems to be taking credit for the diversity.
He is Canadian and his race shouldn’t prompt you to say: send him back. Just like you wouldn’t say that to a white man. He is a Canadian who has committed a crime. The only ones who belonged here are the indigenous and the rest of us came from somewhere in the world!
After 28 years strip him of any Canadian citizenship and send him out of the country don’t care where. Middle of the North Atlantic would be fine with me.
Diversity at any cost.
Wonder who did that to his face? 🤔
Good he Deserve it
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