Ex-University of Waterloo student sentenced to 11 years in prison for classroom stabbings [Video]

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The former University of Waterloo, Ont., student who pleaded guilty to a stabbing rampage in a gender-studies class in 2023 on Monday was sentenced to 11 years in prison when he appeared in a Kitchener court.

Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, 25, will not be charged with terrorism, but the judge called his actions a “particularly grave hate crime.”

In June 2024, he pleaded guilty to two charges of aggravated assault and one charge each of assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon.

Villalba-Aleman also faced possible terrorism charges, but Justice Frances Brennan said Monday those were no longer being considered because “his actions were not ideologically motivated.”

“This is a particularly grave hate crime. Mr. Villalba-Aleman planned his attack, he posted a boastful and hateful statement of his intentions and committed the offence in a university classroom, no doubt to draw widespread attention to his crime,” Brennan said as part of his sentencing hearing. 

“This was …