LAVAL — The Quebec man who killed two children and injured six others when he drove a city bus into a Montreal-area daycare in 2023 committed an act so brutal that he must be considered a high-risk offender, a Crown prosecutor argued on Friday in Superior Court.

And while Pierre Ny St-Amand was declared not criminally responsible for his actions because of a mental disorder, there is a “significant likelihood” that he will be violent again, prosecutor Simon Blais told the judge.

“It is difficult to imagine an act more cruel, savage, or inhumane than that committed by the accused in this case,” Blais told the courtroom in Laval, Que., the Montreal suburb where on Feb. 8, 2023, Ny St-Amand drove a bus into a daycare, killing a four-year-old boy and five-year-old girl and injuring six other

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