Police said in a statement on Thursday that investigators determined the arson was a targeted offence, but was not a hate crime.
A former priest for the Ukrainian Church in Victoria has been arrested in connection with a targeted arson fire last spring at the family home of the priest who replaced him.
The oldest, who was 11 at the time, suffered a serious wound that required surgery to address nerve damage in her arm, which was cut deeply by broken window glass. Alec Rossa, president of the Ukrainian Catholic Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, said Machinski was priest at the church from November 2011 to September 2015, and was replaced by Vyshnevskyy in January 2016.
At a bail hearing Thursday in Nanaimo, provincial court Judge Mayland McKimm said Machinski could be released on bail if he is able to make a financial deposit of $2,000 and has a $5,000 surety. The details of the hearing cannot be reported due to a publication ban. Machinski must not possess any weapons, incendiary devices, accelerants or fireworks. His next court appearance has been scheduled for April 24.
On Thursday, he issued a statement thanking Victoria police and Crown prosecutors for their work in investigating the arson attack that destroyed the family’s home and “nearly our lives.”
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