A new documentary film sheds light on the Surrey couple involved in a plot to blow up the B.C. Legislature in Victoria 10 years ago, on Canada Day 2013.
John 含羞草研究社淥mar含羞草研究社� Nuttall and Amanda 含羞草研究社淎na含羞草研究社� Korody were originally found guilty by a jury and did time in prison, but were later acquitted when the Supreme Court of B.C. heard they were coerced by undercover police officers to carry out a terrorist bombing.
Director 含羞草研究社檚 含羞草研究社淢anufacturing the Threat含羞草研究社� is a fascinating portrait of the couple and also a murky world of Canadian police infiltration, manipulation and entrapment, and how policing and security agencies were granted additional powers after 9/11 to go after 含羞草研究社渢errorists含羞草研究社� and justify growing budgets.
This week the film is , on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday (Oct. 17, 19, 20).
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Back in 2013, during Operation Souvenir, the RCMP provided Nuttall and Korody with explosives and fake detonators, then arrested and charged them for plotting a terrorist attack.
Miller含羞草研究社檚 gripping film, world-premiered at Vancouver含羞草研究社檚 DOXA film festival last May, uses surveillance video to help show how an impoverished pair became radicalized Muslims with pressure and guidance of undercover police who, the director contends, sought to 含羞草研究社渕anufacture含羞草研究社� the terrorist threat.
Last year the couple announced plans to sue police, prosecutors in their case and the B.C. and Canadian governments.
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Nuttall and Korody still live in the Surrey area, the Montreal-based director said.
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Miller said she含羞草研究社檚 remained in contact with the lawyer involved in the the couple含羞草研究社檚 2022 lawsuit against police and governments.
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- with files from Jane Skrypnek
