Montreal man who tried to join ISIL to be released from penitentiary soon In 2017, Ismaël Habib was convicted of attempting to travel abroad to commit a terrorist act and giving false information to obtain a passport.

February 25, 2022   

(Montreal Gazette) A Montreal man who was found guilty of attempting to leave Canada to join the terrorist group ISIL in Syria will be released to a halfway house or a psychiatric institution soon, even though the Parole Board of Canada still has concerns about him.

In 2017, Ismaël Habib, 34, was sentenced at the Montreal courthouse to a nine-year prison term after he was found guilty of attempting to join ISIL to fight with the group in Syria and of ‎using false documents in an attempt to obtain a passport.

When the time he had already served behind bars was factored into the sentence, he was left with a prison term of a little more than 6 1/2 years.

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