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The Toronto Van Attack - 2 - the Confession of Alek Minassian

Nighttime

Curiouscast

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Although Canada is no stranger to murder, madness and mayhem, we have been very fortunate to have largely avoided the type of mass murders and shootings that have become common fixtures in other countries with similar cultures to our own. On April 23, 2018, Younge Street in Downtown Toronto was the setting of an event that many Canadians had taken comfort in thinking could never happen here. 25 year old Alek Minassian hit the gas and jerked the wheel of the rented cube van he was driving forcing the vehicle onto a busy sidewalk. For several city blocks Minassian used the vehicle to target pedestrians, killing 10 and injuring 16. In this episode of Nighttime, I am again joined by my best friend Scott to continue our discussion of the Toronto Van Attack we started in part one of this series. Our focus now will shift from speculating on his motivation, to reviewing excerpts of his confession. Links: the Toronto Van Attack part 1 - https://www.nighttimepodcast.com/episodes/toronto-van-attack Nightcap post show episode (Patron Exclusive) : patreon.com/nighttimepodcast Credits: Musical Theme: Sunny by Paragon Cause Ambient Theme: Spooky Ambience by Paragon Cause Contact: Website: https://www.nighttimepodcast.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/NightTimePod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NightTimePod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nighttimepod Email: [email protected] Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/nighttimepodcast Premium Feed: https://www.patreon.com/Nighttimepodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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A quick note before we begin.

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What you're about to hear is an update to an episode I released back in April of 2018 that was simply titled the Toronto Van Attack.

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If you haven't listened to that episode and you don't know the story, I suggest you listen to part one first.

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I've added a link to part one in the episode notes and I've reorganized the nighttime episode archive to place the series in sequence.

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Now with that said, let's get to it.

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Tonight, in this episode of nighttime,

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our topic will be the Toronto Van Attack of 2018 and the subsequent

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confession of Alec Minassian.

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