渥太华平面设计师面临恐怖指控的辩护律师辩称，针对其客户的证据站不住脚

周二，27 岁的帕特里克·戈登·麦克唐纳 (Patrick Gordon Macdonald) 的审判结束了结案陈词，他对三项恐怖主义和仇恨言论指控表示无罪。

Closing arguments concluded Tuesday in the trial of an Ottawa graphic designer facing terror charges over his alleged involvement with the neo-Nazi group Atomwaffen Division.

周二，一名渥太华平面设计师因涉嫌参与新纳粹组织 Atomwaffen Division 而面临恐怖指控，庭审结束陈词。

Patrick Gordon Macdonald, 27, pleaded not guilty to three terrorism and hate speech charges. Crown prosecutors allege he helped make three recruitment videos for the listed terrorist entity, as well as a slew of other hate propaganda.

27 岁的帕特里克·戈登·麦克唐纳 (Patrick Gordon Macdonald) 对三项恐怖主义和仇恨言论指控表示无罪。皇家检察官指控他帮助为列入名单的恐怖实体制作了三段招募视频，以及大量其他仇恨宣传。

But his defence team argued the Crown can’t prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he was involved in the production of the videos, and they suggested the case hinges on that.

但他的辩护团队辩称，官方无法毫无疑问地证明他参与了视频的制作，他们认为案件取决于此。

"This is a house of cards that's built on a very shaky foundation," said defence lawyer Ariya Sheivari.

辩护律师阿里亚·谢瓦里 (Ariya Sheivari) 表示：“这是一座纸牌屋，基础非常不稳固。”

The series of propaganda videos in question espouse violent and antisemitic messages and symbols, and show a small, paramilitary-like force shooting rifles and burning flags and books, including the Pride flag and the Israeli flag.

这一系列有问题的宣传视频宣扬暴力和反犹太主义信息和符号，并展示了一支小型准军事部队射击步枪并焚烧旗帜和书籍，包括骄傲旗帜和以色列国旗。

Crown prosecutors have argued throughout the proceedings that camera equipment seized from Macdonald's home in 2022 can tie him to the creation of the videos through metadata analysis, along with other records and objects police obtained.

皇家检察官在整个诉讼过程中辩称，2022 年从麦克唐纳家中查获的摄像设备可以通过元数据分析以及警方获得的其他记录和物品将他与视频的创作联系起来。

Multiple cameras and lenses were seized by police, which prosecutors said contain identifiable traits, such as serial numbers and file naming conventions. One camera had an identifiable offset date of 391 days and 15 hours, meaning the date stamp on files would be off by more than a year.

警方查获了多台相机和镜头，检察官称这些相机和镜头包含可识别的特征，例如序列号和文件命名约定。一台相机的可识别偏移日期为 391 天零 15 小时，这意味着文件上的日期戳将偏差一年多。

The defence argued the metadata evidence the Crown has assembled is circumstantial, and does not link Macdonald to creating the videos.

辩方辩称，官方收集的元数据证据是间接的，并没有将麦克唐纳与视频的制作联系起来。

Sheivari told the court the identifying data for one of the cameras is linked to JPEG image files embedded in one of the three video files the RCMP had downloaded from the internet.

Sheivari 告诉法庭，其中一台摄像机的识别数据与皇家骑警从互联网下载的三个视频文件之一中嵌入的 JPEG 图像文件相关联。

He said it's not clear what images are contained in those JPEGs and argued they alone are not proof that the videos were recorded with Macdonald's camera.

他表示，目前尚不清楚这些 JPEG 中包含哪些图像，并认为仅凭这些图像并不能证明这些视频是用麦克唐纳的相机录制的。

Sheivari called this a key "building block of the Crown's case" linking his client to the videos.

谢瓦里称这是将他的客户与视频联系起来的“官方案件的关键组成部分”。

Defence lawyer Douglas Baum also challenged previous expert witness testimony that branded Atomwaffen a terrorist group, suggesting the research report compiled on the group for the court was sloppy and limited to secondary sources.

辩护律师道格拉斯·鲍姆还对之前将 Atomwaffen 定性为恐怖组织的专家证人证词提出质疑，认为为法庭编写的有关该组织的研究报告草率且仅限于二手资料。

He noted the Atomwaffen Division was not designated a terrorist group by Public Safety Canada until 2021, after Macdonald was alleged to have participated in the group's activities. He suggested the Crown needs to independently establish that it is a terror group for the charges to stick.

他指出，直到 2021 年，在麦克唐纳被指控参与该组织的活动之后，原子武器部门才被加拿大公共安全部门指定为恐怖组织。他建议，官方需要独立确定该组织是一个恐怖组织，才能维持指控。

Prosecutors also got some final words in on Tuesday, pointing to some neo-Nazi inspired imagery posted to the Tumblr account of "Dark Foreigner," an active social media poster they identified as Macdonald.

检察官周二还做出了一些最后的陈述，指出 Tumblr 帐户上发布的一些受新纳粹主义启发的图像“黑暗外国人”是一张活跃的社交媒体海报，他们确认该海报就是麦克唐纳。

That included one image with text that reads, "Accept death, embrace infamy."

其中包括一张图片，上面写着“接受死亡，拥抱耻辱”。

"The small drizzle becomes a bigger pond, is the danger here," said Crown prosecutor Catherine Legault, warning such graphics were made to recruit more members for the group and its far-right ideology.

皇家检察官凯瑟琳·莱戈特（Catherine Legault）表示：“小毛毛雨变成了更大的池塘，这就是这里的危险。”她警告说，制作此类图形是为了为该组织及其极右意识形态招募更多成员。

None of the allegations have been proven in court. A scheduling hearing is set for early February.

所有指控均未在法庭上得到证实。听证会定于二月初举行。

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Dec. 3, 2024.

加拿大通讯社的这篇报道于 2024 年 12 月 3 日首次发表。