The Dark Corners: "Supreme Gentlemen"

DEVIANT

Cold Open Media

True Crime

4.8 • 610 Ratings

🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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(2/2) In April of 2018, Alek Minassian sits in a Toronto police station after using a van to kill eleven people. Now, investigators are trying to figure out who he is, and why he did this. Minassian is happy to talk about it all. What he spins is a tale years in the making, winding himself into the very fabric of what he calls the beta uprising...the incel revolution. Who are the incels? What do they want? How much of a threat are they today? DEVIANT host Dan Szematowicz explores all these questions, and concludes the story of the the 2018 Toronto Van Attack. JOIN OUR PATREON: http://www.deviantpodcast.com Visit DEVIANT's socials: http://www.instagram.com/deviant.podcast http://www.tiktok.com/@deviant.podcast Copyright 2025 Cold Open Media LLC Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of Deviant contains scenes and sound depicting violence.
0:05.1	Listener discretion is advised.
0:14.6	I'm going to ask you this because it's important.
0:22.6	Ten people died here today.
0:26.6	Fifteen people were seriously injured.
0:30.6	I think it's important to ask how you feel about that.
0:36.6	I feel like I accomplished my mission. I feel like I accomplished my mission.
0:40.3	If you like to accomplish your mission?
0:42.3	Yes.
0:43.3	If the families of those people who were murdered and were injured, we're in this room right now,
0:49.3	what would you say to that?
0:53.3	I honestly don't know what I would say.
0:59.7	Would you apologize?
1:02.7	I honestly don't know.
1:05.5	It's April 23, 2018, and 25-year-old Alec Menassian is sitting in a Toronto police station.
1:14.1	He's dressed in a white jumpsuit.
1:16.5	The police made him change into it after taking the clothes he was wearing.
1:20.1	That clothing is now evidence.
1:23.0	Earlier that day, he rents a van, drives it to a busy part of Toronto,
1:28.9	accelerates onto a sidewalk, and runs down as many people as he can.
1:33.8	When it's all over, 11 die and 15 are badly injured.
1:38.6	After he's apprehended and for several hours, he does a lot of talking to Toronto police.
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