{"id":183037,"date":"2023-09-27T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T21:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=183037"},"modified":"2023-09-29T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T18:23:41","slug":"montreal-neo-nazi-receives-15-month-jail-sentencing-probation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/montreal-neo-nazi-receives-15-month-jail-sentencing-probation\/","title":{"rendered":"Montreal neo-Nazi receives 15-month jail sentencing, probation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Montreal neo-Nazi <\/span>was sentenced to 15 months in jail and three years of probation for inciting hatred against Jewish people last Friday. <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Gabriel Sohier-Chaput\u00a0was on trial for a 2017 article that called for \"non-stop Nazism, everywhere.\" <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But that was only one of hundreds of anti-semitic articles he wrote for the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Daily Stormer.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> He was the hate site\u2019s second most prolific author.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Though he wrote\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">under the pen name Charles Zeiger, his true identity was unmasked in 2018 by journalists for the\u00a0<em>Montreal Gazette. <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/local-news\/major-neo-nazi-figure-recruiting-in-montreal?utm_campaign=Echobox&amp;utm_medium=Social&amp;utm_source=Twitter#link_time=1525341490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">That reporting<\/a> called Sohier-Chaput \u201cone of North America\u2019s most influential neo-Nazis.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jon Milton is one of the journalists behind the original expos\u00e9.\u00a0<\/span>Although 15 months may not sound like much, Milton says it's one of the harshest sentences in the history of this crime.<\/p>\n<p>\"It appears to me the only reason why Sohier-Chaput got a sentence as harsh as he did... is because of the judge on the case.\"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/montreal\/zeiger-trial-sentence-1.6975423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Judge Manlio Del Negro rejected<\/a> a deal of only three months' jail time, and two years' probation, recommended by Crown and defense attorneys in July.<\/p>\n<p>Sohier-Chaput's lawyers tried to portray him as a man just pushing the envelope a bit too far, but his actions tell a different story, says Milton, as Sohier-Chaput had his hand in more serious Nazi forums, as well as hate-based organizing in Canada and the US.<\/p>\n<p>\"One of the reasons why I began to investigate Sohier-Chaput is because of his participation in the hate rally and the race riots in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.\"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to the interview below:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Montreal neo-Nazi was sentenced to 15 months in jail and three years of probation for inciting hatred against Jewish people last Friday. Gabriel Sohier-Chaput\u00a0was on trial for a 2017 article that called for &#8220;non-stop Nazism, everywhere.&#8221; But that was only one of hundreds of anti-semitic articles he wrote for the Daily Stormer. 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