OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – A second man charged in a deliberate arson attack that occurred near Canada’s parliament in Ottawa in February did not have anything to do with the Freedom Convoy, Canadian police say.
The Ottawa Police Service said Wednesday In a press release sent Wednesday that it charged 41-year-old Bartosz Wernik in relation to “deliberately set fire in an apartment building on Lisgar Street on February 6, 2022” while adding that ‘there is no information indicating WERNIK was involved in any way with the Convoy protest which was going on when this arson took place.”
Wernik was charged with multiple counts of arson along with mischief and the possession of “Incendiary Material.” His court date has not yet been set.
Two weeks ago, Ottawa Police announced that the first person charged in the arson attack, 21-year-old Connor Russell McDonald, had nothing to do with the trucker Freedom Convoy.