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The man who caused Concordia University to evacuate three of its buildings after he sent fake terrorist bomb threats has been granted full parole on the 18-month prison term he received in October.

Hisham Saadi, 49, was granted the release earlier this month by the Commission québécoise des libérations conditionnelles (CQLC) after the provincial parole board determined that “the risk (he) represents does not seem unacceptable to society.”

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On March 1, 2017, security at Concordia and several media outlets began receiving emails written by Saadi. The emails claimed to be from a white supremacist group called the Council of Conservative Citizens of Canada. The emails stated that a series of homemade bombs had been placed in two of the university’s buildings and that they would be set off over the course of three days. Concordia closed three of its buildings for roughly seven hours before searches of the buildings proved the threats were fake.