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One of the two men convicted in a terrorist plot to derail an Ontario passenger train spat loudly in court Wednesday before standing and pounding his chest while insisting he is not insane.

Chiheb Esseghaier interrupted his own sentencing hearing with the brief tirade, delivered at a yell, which included the assertion that it is still the year 2014 and that he will be taken into heaven on Dec. 25, when he is 33 years old.

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Later in the same hearing Esseghaier hurled a plastic cup at a lawyer appointed on his behalf, splashing water on his sleeve. He then stood and yelled at the judge while waving his finger. “I am similar to the prophet Jesus and the prophet Joseph,” he said, screaming. “I just throw the cup at his face because he is lying.”

Esseghaier’s interjections punctuated an already tense hearing that saw a second psychiatrist testify to Esseghaier’s mental health. Dr. Philip Klassen told the court he believes the former PhD student, originally from Tunisia, has psychotic symptoms that meet the criteria for paranoid schizophrenia.