ICYMI - FIRST READING: The Canadian crisis of 'stranger attacks'
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But in the last few months, the problem of random unprovoked attacks has become a crisis seemingly unique to Canada. Roughly every couple of days now yields another incident of a Canadian being injured or killed in an entirely random assault.A homeless man dead after random attack by teenagers One sub-trend among the wave of stranger assaults has been incidents of “swarming” attacks, in which large groups of teenagers surround a random victim and assail them with kicks, punches and stab wounds. Just before Christmas, it was one such attack by eight teenage girls that is alleged to haveThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.Just a few days before Christmas at a mall in Nanaimo, B.C.
. The cut didn’t require hospitalization, but the alleged attacker – who had been acting erratically prior to the assault – needed to be subdued by police and security officers at whom he spat and kicked.At dusk on Jan. 10, a 19-year-old Mississauga man suddenly . The man survived, but the injury was bad enough to yield an attempted murder charge for his alleged assailant, who was out on bail at the time of the stabbing.
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