Police in British Columbia says that a suspect known as “Mr. X” that is believed to help try a bomb before the terrorist attack of Air India has died before facing charges.
The Declaration of the Pacific Region of RCMP occurs when families commemorate the 40th anniversary of the attack, where two bombs aimed at Air India flights exploded, including one that killed 329 people, most of them Canadians.
The police said in an email that the investigators had “discovered information related to a suspect who believes that he was involved in the proof of an explosive device before the terrorist attack Air India on June 23, 1985”.
RCMP does not name the suspect, saying that the evidence was not enough to unequivocally confirm the identification of the person who has died since then.
On June 23, 1985, Air India Flight 182 left Montreal and exploded over the Atlantic Ocean, killing the 329 people on board. It was the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history, but few remember the details.
In a later response, the police said the investigators “made extensive and deliberate efforts in recent years to identify the suspect.”
A 2010 Research Commission report heard that the officers of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service saw Mr. X between a group of suspects entering a forest on the island of Vancouver, where the pump test was heard, a few weeks before the pumps were placed in two planes.
But the officers did not have a chamber and the suspect did not identify for decades, in a failure, the report called “the NADIR of the ineffectiveness of prior surveillance to the CSIS bomb.”
On Monday, the 40th anniversary of the Air India Flight 182 bombing that left more than 300 dead, many of them Canadians on the road to India is fulfilled. It is considered one of the most mortal terrorist attacks in Canadian history. Before the solemn occasion, Sohrab Sandhu spoke with some local faith groups in BC, which ask the province to build a great memorial and a learning center to honor the memory of the victims.
Only one person was convicted of participation in the attack, the manufacturer of Inderjit Singh Reyat bombs, who declared himself guilty of homicide in 2003 and was then condemned for perjurning to protect his conspirators.
Two men, Ripudaman Singh Malik and Ajaib Singh Bagri, were acquitted in 2005 after a trial that cost almost $ 60 million.
The trial, a 2005 federal investigation report and the Investigation Commission concluded that the attack was rooted in radical sections of the SIJ community in search of an independent homeland in India, known as Khalistan.
Postmedia first reported the identification of Mr. X last week, citing an interview with RCMP ASST. Commissioner David Teboul, who, according to reports, said the name of the suspect could not be released due to privacy laws.
The Pump on flight 182 of Air India exploded on the Atlantic Ocean, killing everyone on board, while a second suitcase pump exploded before being transferred to an Air India plane, killing two luggage managers at Narita de Tokyo airport.
The ceremonies that mark the national day of the memory of the victims of terrorism took place on Monday in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Ottawa and Cork County, Ireland, which is close to where flight 182 fell.
BC Prime Minister David Eby said in a statement that the province “must rely on hatred, intolerance and division that feed terrorism”, and his government was renewing its resolution “to create a safer society for all in honor of those we have lost.”
“They were entire families, entrepreneurs and students with all their lives ahead,” Eby said. “Tragically, they became victims of the most fatal terrorist attack in Canadian history when a bomb exploded aboard its flight.
“We cry with loved ones that are left behind and condemn acts without meaning of violent extremism.”
The former BC legislator, Dave S. Hayer, said in a Facebook statement that the 40th anniversary of the attack is a reminder that “terrorism does not take place in a civilized world and that it must be eliminated at all costs.”
“Unfortunately, only one person has been convicted of the bombing that killed 331 civilians, despite the fact that the known terrorists who were responsible for these bombs were being observed and recorded on tape by applying agencies of the Canadian law before the bombing,” said Hayer, who often spoke in the provincial legislature about the attack during his 12 years in office.
In 2022, the absolute suspect Malik was killed in British Columbia for two success that received life imprisonment. Their reasons have never been revealed by the police or prosecutors.
Tanner Fox, a hired hired killer to kill the former bombing suspect from Air India, Ripudaman Singh Malik, was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of probation for 20 years. Fox and his accomplice José López declared themselves guilty of murder in second degree last October.
