Amour Ftouhi was sentenced by a U.S. District Judge on Thursday for nearly killing a Michigan airport police officer
Amour Ftouhi was sentenced by a U.S. District Judge on Thursday for nearly killing a Michigan airport police.
Investigators say in 2017, Ftouhi drove 1,600 kilometres from Montreal and arrived at the airport in Flint, Mich. While there, he yelled "God is great" in Arabic and repeatedly stabbed Lt. Jeff Neville.
Federal investigators say Ftouhi, a native of Tunisia who moved to Canada in 2007, wanted to get Neville's gun and shoot people at the airport.
Defence attorneys say Ftouhi wasn't attempting to create mass casualties and wanted to be killed so his family could collect life insurance and he could become a martyr.
Before sentencing, Ftouhi told the judge he had no regrets and only wished he could have acquired a machine-gun that day to kill Neville and others.
— With files from The Associated Press