Canadian police arrest man who drove a car at worshippers in 2 mosques

TORANTO, Canada – Canadian police have arrested a 28-year-old man who drove his car toward worshippers at two mosques in Toronto on April 5.

According to police, the man allegedly drove his car into the parking lot and tried to hit the worshippers and other vehicles.

The driver then sped away, drove to another mosque, and repeated the same actions.

The incidents occurred around 5:30 a.m. and 6 a.m. on April 5.

The suspect then drove to a nearby shopping center, where he threatened several customers and shouted Islamophobic comments.

The man was charged with two counts of dangerous driving of a motor vehicle and five counts of criminal harassment.

He was also charged with threatening bodily harm, assault, indecent acts in a public place, and insult.

He was also implicated in another April 7 incident at a mosque in the nearby town of Markham.

In another case, police charged a 27-year-old woman in the city of Kitchener, about 100 km west of Toronto, with an alleged hate-motivated attack reported Wednesday.

Mifrah Abid, coordinator of the Coalition of Muslim Women’s Together Against Islamophobia program in the region, posted a video on Twitter in which she confronts a woman.

She accused the woman of “making “a racist remark about brown women”

The woman denied the accusation, then lunged at Abid, took her phone away, and threw it at her.

A second video, taken by another person, shows the altercation. Police charged the suspect with assault, assault with a weapon, and theft.