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WASHINGTON, April 18 (KUNA) -- A Canadian was sentenced Thursday to life imprisonment for "committing an act of terrorism transcending national boundaries and two other offenses" in conjunction with his attack on an airport police officer in June 2017.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement that Amor Ftouhi, 51, entered the US in June 2017 from Canada on "a professed "mission" for the purpose of killing American police officers in the US."
Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers said in that Ftouhi came to the US "to kill American police officers, and then brutally attacked an airport police officer in Flint."
"The National Security Division is committed to doing all that it can to protect our women and men in uniform from terrorist violence on our soil, and this sentence is a gratifying reflection of the seriousness of the defendant's conduct," he stressed.
In June 2017, Ftouhi approached a lieutenant with the Flint Bishop Airport police "and was in full uniform, and stabbed the police officer in the neck twice with a knife," according to the DOJ statement.
"Ftouhi referenced killings in Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan," it added, noting that the police officer survived the attack with life-threatening injuries. (end)
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