Crowd Shows Up to Support Alberta Farmer Charged for Shooting At Intruders
5th May 2018
A crowd applauded an Alberta farmer Friday who made his first court appearance after he was charged with aggravated assault following the shooting and injuring of an intruder on his property.
As CTV News reports, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) also charged Edouard Maurice with pointing a firearm and careless use of a firearm after the Feb. 24 incident in Okotoks.
Maurice is quickly becoming a symbol of the urban-rural divide in Canada as well as the Trudeau government’s recent attempts to further strengthen Canada’s already stringent gun control laws.
In his testimony to the RCMP, Maurice said that he had opened fire on two prowlers in his back yard after spotting them near his vehicles. Although police located one of the suspects — with a shotgun wound in his arm — they charged Maurice and not the intruders with criminal activity.
Note to self: Stay out of Canada.