Police chief says Ottawa shooter had no criminal record in Calgary
Posted Oct 23, 2014 6:46 pm.
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Calgary’s police chief says they’re investigating any possible links the man behind the attacks in Ottawa had to this city, and is disputing some of what the RCMP said earlier in the day
Rick Hanson says Michael Zehaf Bibeau did not have a criminal record in Calgary.
“At this point in time there’s a whole of information that we don’t have other than when he was here, if he was here, he would have had a very low profile because there’s been nothing that would have put him on our radar screen, and certainly it appears that he wasn’t significant on the RCMP radar screen as well as far as national security files go,” said Hanson.
Hanson acknowledges that a vehicle linked to Zehaf Bibeau and registered to the Calgary Islamic Centre in the S.W. received a photo radar ticket in Edmonton in August, but they don’t know if Zehaf Bibeau was driving it at the time.
Earlier at a news conference on Thursday, RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson said that Zehaf Bibeau was born in Montreal and has lived in Calgary, and most recently in Vancouver.
“I can say that he lived in Calgary because his criminal record on things outside the national security world took place in Calgary,” said Paulson.
But Paulson says there’s no evidence of a link between Zehaf Bibeau and a radicalized group in Calgary.
