Alleged G20 attack plotter Byron Sonne is finally on trial

After a year and a half, “The Anarchist of Forest Hill,” Byron Sonne, is going to trial. Sonne is accused of planning an attack on the G20 summit last summer, after police found chemicals used for building bombs in his basement (his Flickr page is littered with pictures of police, whom he calls “bacon”). But Sonne’s lawyers claim that he was simply conducting a review of the summit’s security infrastructure and the chemicals were for unrelated experiments. (Probably not helping his case: the picture on his Flickr page of two hook-like tree steps that he describes as “for climbing G20 fences, or for helping to get a grip to pull them down.”) According to the National Post, Sonne’s defence also argued yesterday that his Charter rights were violated when police detained him without cause (the issue of Charter rights seems to be something of a trend among G20 fallout stories.) Unfortunately, many of the juicier details are blocked by a publication ban (luckily, Denise Balkissoon penned a lengthy piece in the May issue of Toronto Life on Sonne’s back story). Read the entire story [National Post] »