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The Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeaurevealed on Monday that the country’s intelligence services are implicating Indian authorities in the case murder in Canada by a leader of the Sikh community.

“Any involvement of a foreign government in the murder of a Canadian on Canadian soil is a unacceptable violation of our sovereignty“, he declared in the Lower House of the Canadian Parliament.

The Prime Minister added that Canada “expressed his deep concerns to the highest security and government officials in India” for him murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, which occurred last June in the city of Surrey, in western Canada.

Singh Nijjar, shot dead by unknown assailants in the parking lot of a Sikh temple, He had been accused of terrorism by the Indian authorities for having advocated the creation in the state of Punjab of an independent country, Khalistan, for the Sikh minority.

Trudeau briefed the country’s top political leaders on Monday on Canadian intelligence findings on India’s involvement in murder and said that at the G20 summit, held in India on September 9-10, He asked for explanations from his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi.

“In the strongest possible terms, I recommend that the Indian government work with Canada to get to the bottom of this matter“said the president, who described it as “extremely serious”. what happened.

On September 1, the Canadian government announced the suspension of negotiations with India for the signing of a free trade agreement, without explaining the reasons.

Canada also canceled a trade mission to India that should have taken place in October.

• In Canada, they live around 1.8 million people of Indian origin, of whom around 770,000 are Sikh. The leader of the social-democrat New Democratic Party (NDP), Jagmeet Singh, the fourth party in the Canadian Parliament, is Sikh.