Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Marie Woolf
Publication Date: July 25, 2025 - 17:43
Former City of Ottawa lawyer who defaced Holocaust memorial pleads guilty to mischief, gets bail
July 25, 2025
A former lawyer for the City of Ottawa who desecrated the National Holocaust Monument by splashing it with red paint and scrawling the words FEED ME in large red block letters, has pleaded guilty to mischief and been released on bail to his parents’ house.
Iain Aspenlieder, who is expected to be sentenced later this year, last month vandalized the memorial to six million Jews killed by the Nazi regime. His lawyer said Friday that the act was an attempt to draw attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and was not motivated by hate.
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