06-06-2024 17:01 via calgary.ctvnews.ca

'Their ground zero': Trial hears about murder plot at Coutts border blockade

A Crown prosecutor says two men on trial over the border blockade at Coutts, Alta., conspired to kill police officers and believed they were justified in doing so. "They planned and prepared for what they believed would be an inevitable, violent event,” Matt Dalidowicz told jurors in his opening statement Thursday. “They believed in their own minds that they had the right to act violently in response to police enforcing the law to end the blockade. "They saw this as their ground zero
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