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Couple subjected to racial slurs and a death threat in a Peterborough mall parking lot; 18-year-old charged
Peterborough, Ontario — 2025-07-29
A couple of Indian origin were verbally abused with racial slurs by a group of young men in a truck in the Lansdowne Place Mall parking lot in Peterborough, Ontario, on 29 July 2025; video of the incident shows one of the group threatening to kill the man. Peterborough police arrested an 18-year-old from Kawartha Lakes on 9 August and charged him in connection with the incident, which was reported as racially motivated.
EvidenceReported / Pending Review
Information has been received or identified, but assessment is not complete.
- Violence type
- Hate-Motivated Violence
- Motive
- Bias/Hate (alleged)
- Category
- Hate and identity-based incidents
- Also falls under
- Threats and intimidation
- Targeted identities
- South Asian (Indian)
- Conduct
- Threats and intimidation
- Targeted community
- Race and ethnicity — South Asian / Indian
- Source type
- News reporting
- Perpetrator
- Group of youths (one charged)
- Target
- Couple of Indian origin
- Killed
- 0
- Injured
- 0
- Arrested
- 1
- Themes
- None
- Source
- The Hindu
- Last reviewed
- 2026-10-13 · 1 correction