A letter containing the poisonous substance ‘ricin’ was sent in September 2020, while the former US President Trump was in office. After the investigation, it was revealed that 56-year-old Pascale Ferrier sent the letter. Ferrier’s trial is over. Here are all the details!
21 YEARS, 10 MONTHS IMPRISON AND EXPORT…
The suspect, 56-year-old Pascale Ferrier, was sentenced by the court to 21 years and 10 months in prison. After serving his prison sentence, Ferrier will be deported from the United States and will be detained for life if he returns to the United States.
Ferrier said in court that he regretted his plan for failing and that he could not stop Trump, adding that he sees himself as an activist, not a terrorist.
In a statement, Judge Dabney Friedrich told Ferrier that his actions were “potentially deadly” and “harmful to society”.
THE SUBMISSION ACCEPTED THE CRIME
Ferrier, whose fingerprints were taken from the letter containing ricin, in which he urged Trump to withdraw from the presidential race, was detained in September 2020 while crossing from Buffalo, USA, to Canada. Ferrier, who is a dual citizen of France and Canada, admitted to the charges against him by admitting that he made ricin from castor beans at his home in Quebec, Canada, after his capture. Ferrier wrote in the letter he sent to Trump, “I found you a new name: The Ugly Cruel Clown.”
Ferrier admitted that he had sent similar letters to 8 law enforcement agencies in Texas at the same time, and also accepted the accusations about these letters. It turned out that Ferrier had sent the letters to the law enforcement officers in question because he was detained for 10 weeks in 2019 for illegally carrying a gun and driving with an invalid license.
THE SAME EVENT HAS HAPPENED TO OBAMA
A US suspect who sent letters containing ricin to former US President Barack Obama and other officials in 2014 was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
On the other hand, ricin, which is not a known antidote, can cause death within 36 to 72 hours, depending on the dose given, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (UAV)