“It clearly shows that Edmonton police and the Crown prosecutor’s office ... are lacking, grossly, in historical knowledge.”
Edmonton police and the Alberta Crown Prosecution Service are treating a Waffen SS monument as a protected “war memorial” in their charges against journalist Duncan Kinney.
Kinney vehemently denies the allegations and is contesting the charges in court.
It is likely the first time a Canadian journalist has been charged with vandalizing a war memorial, as well as the first time anyone has been charged with vandalizing a memorial to Canada’s wartime enemies.
The charge – “mischief relating to war memorials” – which carries a maximum 10-year prison sentence, seems to have been intended to punish vandalism of cenotaphs and monuments dedicated to Canada’s war dead.
The Criminal Code specifies that the charge relates to “mischief in relation to property that is a building, structure or part thereof that primarily serves as a monument to honour persons who were killed or died as a consequence of a war, including a war memorial or cenotaph […].”
The monument in question, located in St. Michael’s Cemetery in north Edmonton, honours Ukrainian veterans of the SS “Galicia Division,” which fought on the side of Nazi Germany during the Second World War. (more...)
Police Treat Nazi Monument As ‘War Memorial’ In Alleged Vandalism Case
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