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Montreal School Arsonist To Be Released in May

A 20-year-old man convicted of arson in the April 2004 firebombing of a Jewish elementary school in the Montreal, Quebec, suburb of Saint-Laurent is scheduled for release in May.

Sleiman Elmerhebi will have served 16 months of his two-year sentence for torching the United Talmud Torahs school library. Under the Canadian Corrections and Conditional Release Act, an inmate can be released after serving two-thirds of a sentence, according to the February 3 Montreal Gazette.

In addition to prohibiting Elmerhebi from associating with criminals, the parole board commission placed the additional condition for the parolee to not associate “with persons recognized by authorities as being implicated in activist movements.” In two previous parole hearings, Montreal police told commissioners they believed Elmerhebi’s actions were influenced by an activist whom they have been unable to charge with a crime.

Posted February 3, 2006.

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