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Hisham Saadi, who sent fake bomb threats that caused Concordia University to evacuate three of its buildings last year, was sentenced on Friday to a prison term of 18 months.

Quebec Court Judge Mélanie Hébert said Saadi — a student at the time — was thinking only of himself and did not consider the consequences of his actions when he sent letters to security at Concordia University and several Montreal media outlets.

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During a sentence hearing last month, Saadi admitted he sent the threats in an effort to avoid having to write a mid-term exam.

The evacuations began around 11 a.m. on March 1, 2017. Students were allowed back seven hours later.

Saadi was simply “a student who wasn’t ready for an exam,” Hébert said. “Instead of facing it, he preferred to entertain the public’s fears and prejudices.”

Saadi’s prison term will be followed by three years of probation.

He was convicted this year of having committed acts that, considering the context, were susceptible to causing fear that terrorist acts were about to be committed.