An Ontario judge has granted the extradition of a Sri Lankan gang leader arrested in Toronto last year for his alleged role in a deadly attack on a rival gang near Paris in 2022.
Prasanna Nallalingam, detained at the Toronto South Detention Centre, will be surrendered to France after 30 days, pending the approval of Canada’s minister of justice.
According to an uncontested record of the case, on Sept. 21, 2022, Nallalingam supplied four members of the AAVA gang with weapons and instructed them to drive to La Courneuve, a commune located in the northern suburbs of Paris, to “smash up a vehicle” of a rival gang