Corruption is Everywhere > Five more Toronto Police Officers Suspended

 

5 More Toronto-Area Police Officers Suspended in Ongoing Corruption Probe

Jennifer Cowan

2/9/2026|Updated: 2/9/2026

Five more police officers from the Toronto region have been suspended just days after seven Toronto cops and one retired officer were criminally charged by York Regional Police in connection with an ongoing organized crime and corruption investigation.

Two additional Toronto Police Service officers and three from Peel Regional Police have been suspended in connection with Project South, an ongoing investigation by the York Regional Police into serious crimes like murder, shootings, extortion, and drug trafficking, police have confirmed. The most recent suspensions increase the total of current and former police officers linked to the inquiry to 13.

York Regional Police announced last week that seven Toronto police officers and one retired officer from the service had been accused of illegally accessing information that was relayed to criminals. The investigation led to criminal charges against the officers and 19 other people.

Police from Toronto and Peel have not confirmed any additional charges, but said additional officers have been suspended under Ontario’s Community Safety and Policing Act.

Peel Regional Police media relations officer Const. Taylor Halfyard told The Epoch Times that its service has administratively suspended three officers, pending further investigation by York police. No officers have been charged thus far, he said.

“The scope of the York Regional Police (YRP) investigation is wide-reaching and ongoing,” he said via email. “To protect the integrity of their investigation, we will not be providing additional comment.”

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Toronto Police senior communications advisor Nadine Ramadan said in an email to The Epoch Times that two additional officers from the force have been suspended “in relation to Project South,” but said she was not able to confirm further information.

Toronto Police Association (TPA) president Clayton Campbell also confirmed the suspensions via email.

“Unlike criminal charges (where legal support is not guaranteed), members facing internal disciplinary matters under the Community Safety & Policing Act are provided with the opportunity to access legal assistance through the TPA,” he said. “The law prohibits us from discussing these matters publicly, except to say that we will continue to support our members throughout this process.”

Project South

Project South was launched by York Regional Police in June 2025 after a conspiracy to murder a member of corrections management working at an Ontario correctional institution was uncovered, police said.

The investigation eventually led to officers within the Toronto Police Service. Four of the seven active officers accused during a Feb. 5 press conference have been suspended without pay and all face a range of criminal charges.

York investigators allege the officers charged passed confidential police information to criminals who in turn used the information to commit serious crimes, including attempted murders and extortion.

Some have been accused of accepting bribes and drug trafficking and one officer is facing theft charges.

The officers facing criminal charges include Const. Timothy Barnhardt, Sgt. Robert Black, Const. Carl Grellette, Const. Saurabjit Bedi, Const. Derek McCormick, Const. Elias Mouawad, and Const. John Madeley Jr., along with his father, retired Const. John Madeley Sr.

York Regional Police Chief Jim MacSween told reporters during the press conference at York police headquarters in Aurora, Ont., that the seven-month investigation was ongoing, but did not say if investigators expected to lay more charges against other officers.

Police Chief Myron Demkiw told reporters during the press conference that he was “deeply disappointed” by the alleged conduct of his officers and said they would answer for their actions in a court of law.

Toronto Police Service Board chair Shelley Carroll and Demkiw have requested Ontario’s inspector general of policing to immediately launch an independent external investigation.

Inspector General Ryan Teschner announced on Feb. 9 a province-wide inspection would be launched into police integrity and anti-corruption.

The Islamization of France > Muslims threaten to burn Notre Dame Cathedral

 

France: Muslims threaten to burn down Notre Dame Cathedral if jihad murderer isn’t released

Feb 9, 2026 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer38 Comments

Jihadis are emboldened all over the West because they see Infidel authorities as weak and supine. Gestures of accommodation and good will from non-Muslim authorities don’t inspire jihadis to respond in kind; they only inspire contempt and the conviction that the Infidels are weak and ripe for conquest.

The Islamization of France > Court ignores antisemitism in antisemitic murder case; Poland is still Poland, but France is not France anymore - journo

 

France: Court Ignores Antisemitic Muslim Murderer’s Antisemitism

Feb 8, 2026 4:00 pm By Hugh Fitzgerald2 Comments

In France, where more than half of French Jews feel such anxiety for their safety that they have considered emigrating, a series of court cases suggest that when it comes to antisemitic attacks, courts prefer not to believe their “lying eyes,” and instead deny the relevance of the antisemitism that is staring them in the face. More on French judges who deny that antisemitism played a part in violence — rapes, poisonings, murders — against Jews, can be found here: 

French Court Rejects Antisemitism Charge in Murder of 89-Year-Old Jewish Man

by Ailin Vilches Arguello, 

Algemeiner, February 5, 2026:

A French court on Thursday tossed out antisemitic-motivated charges against a 55-year-old man convicted of murdering his 89-year-old Jewish neighbor in 2022, in what appears to be yet another instance of France’s legal system brushing aside antisemitism.

French authorities in Lyon, in southeastern France, acquitted defendant Rachid Kheniche of aggravated murder charges on antisemitic grounds, rejecting the claim that the killing was committed on account of the victim’s religion.

According to French media, the magistrate of the public prosecutor’s office refused to consider the defendant’s prior antisemitic behavior, including online posts spreading hateful content and promoting conspiracy theories about Jews and Israelis, arguing that it was not directly related to the incident itself. The jurors ultimately agreed and dismissed the presence of an antisemitic motive.

The magistrate deserves formal censure for refusing to consider the murderer’s antisemitic behavior as relevant to his murder of his elderly Jewish neighbor. Rachid Kheniche posted online, apparently extensively, conspiracy theories about Jews and Israelis. Of course his obsession with Jews was connected to the murder; it was in fact the main, if not the sole, reason for the murder: Kheniche’s online posts show that he hated Jews with a maniacal, murderous hatred. The magistrate does not deny that; he simply claims that such hatred was not “directly related” to the murder. But that antisemitism is the fons et origo of the murder of that elderly Jewish man. To deny its relevance is nonsense.

In May 2022, Kheniche threw his neighbor, René Hadjadj, from the 17th floor of his building, an act to which he later admitted.

According to the police investigation, Kheniche and his neighbor were having a discussion when the conflict escalated.

At the time, he told investigators that he had tried to strangle Hadjadj but did not realize what he was doing, as he was experiencing a paranoid episode caused by prior drug use.

Of course. How often have we heard that said of Muslim killers in the West? He was having a sudden mental crisis, a “paranoid episode,” he had no idea where he was, or what he was doing with his hands round the neck of his neighbor. And he didn’t realize he was throwing Hadjadj out the window on the seventeenth floor. He doesn’t deserve prison, he needs psychiatric care.

The court concluded that he was mentally impaired at the time of the crime, reducing his criminal responsibility and lowering the maximum sentence for murder to 20 years….

Mentally impaired because he took drugs, shouldn't that be an aggravating factor as opposed to one that diminishes responsibility?

How hard do you think it is for a murderer to feign mental illness in order to get a shorter sentence, and one focused not on punishment, but on “restoring his sanity”?

Kheniche was ultimately sentenced on Thursday to 18 years in prison and six years of “socio-judicial monitoring.”…

A sentence of only 18 years for murder? Not life? Kheniche’s performance as someone mentally impaired must have been quite convincing.

Kheniche previously referred on social media to “sayanim,” a conspiracy term used to refer to a sleeper agent for Israel’s Mossad intelligence agency. He also reportedly took passport photos and a text in Hebrew found in his victim’s jacket and cut them out. But the magistrate argued that the law required the court only to consider the facts “at the same time as the crime committed,” thereby dismissing past antisemitic and conspiratorial comments….

Past antisemitic comments by Rachid Kheniche ought not to be ignored. They show his state of mind — he hated Jews; he was obsessed with both Jews, and Israel — at the time he threw René Hadjadj out of the window on the seventeenth floor. What would have satisfied this magistrate that antisemitism was a major factor in the murder? Nothing less, it seems, than someone testifying that he heard Kheniche exclaim “death to Jews” at the very moment when he pushed Hadjadj to his death.

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‘Poland is still Poland, while France

is no longer France’

Feb 8, 2026 1:00 pm By Robert Spencer13 Comments

Now, why is this? What is the difference between Poland and France?

France didn’t have to do this to itself, but it stigmatized and demonized everyone who warned them of the consequences of what they were doing as “racist” and “Islamophobic.” Now the patriots in France are outnumbered and the general population lacks the will to resist. This will not be like the German occupation, that was over in less than five years. This will be a societal transformation that will end France as we have known it forever, and create a new European Islamic entity in which the native French are in the place of the Coptic Christians in Egypt or the Zoroastrians in Iran.

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