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Sensational: Trudeau publicly accuses the Indian secret services of having committed a murder in Canada.

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A very harsh conflict erupted on Monday, unprecedented in relations between Canada and India, after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in a speech in the House of Commons broadcast on television, accused Indian intelligence of having carried out an extrajudicial killing on Canadian soil .

Trudeau cited "credible" information pointing to "Indian government agents" as being responsible for the June murder of a prominent Sikh leader named Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was shot dead outside a Sikh temple in Surrey, Columbia. British.

“ In recent weeks, Canadian security agencies have been actively pursuing credible allegations of a potential link between Indian government agents and the killing of a Canadian citizen, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, ” Trudeau announced in his address to MPs.

“ Any involvement of a foreign government in the killing of a Canadian citizen on Canadian soil is an unacceptable violation of our sovereignty. It goes against the fundamental rules on which free, open and democratic societies are based ,” he continued.


Accusations of this kind, in public, between large states are capable of causing mutual relations to collapse and razing to the ground what has been built so far. Trudeau also revealed to parliament that he had raised the issue of the alleged assassination of the Canadian Sikh leader with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the G-20 summit last week.

Canada on Monday promptly expelled a top Indian diplomat, described as the head of Indian intelligence in Canada, amid an ongoing investigation. India is asked to cooperate fully with the Canadian investigation.

Hardeep Singh Nijjar

Nijjar, 45, was shot dead in the car park of a Sikh temple in Surrey after an evening service on 18 June. The Sikh was a leading figure of international stature in the Khalistan independence movement, which advocates the creation of a separate state for Sikhs in India. Because of its separatist political activities, groups associated with the movement have been dubbed “terrorist organizations.”

Nijjar himself was a wanted man in India, described as one of the most wanted foreign “terrorists” in the country.

This is how the Indian media covered his killing, saying that a “terrorism leader” had been killed and accusing him of “conducting training camps” in Canada for militants to carry out operations inside India.

Thousands of Canadian Sikhs attended his funeral and the murder sparked outrage in Vancouver's large Sikh community

Meanwhile, the Canadian government has rejected the “terrorism” narrative and emphasized Nijjar's Canadian citizenship.

Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly, following Trudeau's speech on Monday, confirmed that the head of Indian intelligence in Canada, based at the Indian embassy, ​​had been expelled as a result. “If proven true, this would represent a serious violation of our sovereignty and the fundamental rules of how countries behave with each other,” the foreign secretary continued.

Everything that happened goes beyond the boundaries of what countries can do without involving the authorities of other countries and will have serious consequences on bilateral relations. Furthermore, a resurgence of Sikh terrorist actions on Indian territory is to be expected.

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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/clamoroso-trudeau-accusa-pubblicamente-i-servizi-segreti-indiani-di-aver-commesso-un-omicidio-in-canada/ on Tue, 19 Sep 2023 08:00:50 +0000.