The father of Hussam Eddin Alzahabi says his 20-year-old son has been arrested in what he believes is a terror-related investigation in Kingston, Ont.
“They tell me they search about him about terrorists. I know my son, he didn’t think about that. He like Canada. He like the safety in Canada. How could he think about that?” Amin Alzahabi, who has been in Canada since 2017, told CBC News from his home Friday morning.
“Not good, not good.”
On Thursday, RCMP arrested two people following raids on two homes in the eastern Ontario city. Sources tell CBC News it’s a national security investigation.
CBC News has learned the arrests included a minor and involved both Kingston police and the help of the FBI in the U.S. Details about the other person arrested aren’t readily available.
On Thursday, officers could be seen carrying bags of evidence out of the homes.
By Friday morning, the police presence was contained to just one of the homes.
“It’s fake news about my son,” said Alzahabi. “I trust my son. I know he cannot do anything against any human, humanity.”
The family has been living in Canada since July 2017, following time in Kuwait from 2008 to 2017, and Syria before that. But Amin Alzahabi said he does not consider the family Syrian refugees.
He said his son is completing high school upgrades at Loyalist Collegiate & Vocational Institute.
The RCMP said it will hold a news conference today at 1 p.m. ET to update the public on the investigation.
In a statement, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said police took action “based on credible information, to ensure public safety.”
The RCMP have arrested two people following raids on the two homes in what officials are calling a national security investigation. (Cristiano Vilela)
The minister said the operation has not changed the country’s threat level. It remains at “medium,” where it has hovered since late 2014.
However, the threat was considered serious enough to involve months of investigation, thousands of hours of police work and the use of a Pilatus PC-12 RCMP surveillance plane that had been circling over Kingston in recent weeks for hours on end, creating a great deal of interest from residents due to the noise.
Spokespeople for both the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice referred all questions to the RCMP.
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