The young man and woman arrested this week out of fears they were planning an act of terrorism are remaining behind bars.
Mahdi El Jamali and Sabrine Djaermane, both 18, were arrested this week and have yet to be charged with a criminal act, but will likely be required to sign peace bonds before they are released.
In recent weeks two other Montrealers have signed bonds, relinquished their passports, and promised not to contact people overseas who may belong to terrorist groups.
El Jamali and Djaermane are both students at Cegep De Maisonneuve, and five other students from the school are believed to have flown overseas to join Islamic State fighters in the Middle East.
Administrators with the school are now trying to figure out why students are being lured to joining terrorist groups.
Cegep director Brigitte Desjardins said the school has held conferences with its employees, given training to teachers and counsellors, is collaborating with the SPVM and anti-radicalization centre, and is working with social workers and psychologists on how to identify radicalization in progress.
“It's a process, you know, radicalization is a process, brainwashing is a process and you know when they're at the peak of this process we cannot reach them,” she said, adding education and teaching students critical thinking is the best way to protect them.
Links with Adil Charkaoui
Last month Cegep de Maisonneuve temporarily suspended its contract with Adil Charkaoui, following reports he was promoting hatred.
At least one of Charkaoui's students at his Montreal East Islamic Community Centre (CCIEM) had gone overseas to join the Islamic State.
In March the school said Charkaoui could continue to teach after it hired an Arab-speaking observer to ensure nothing that promotes hate or violence was said during the classes.
Meanwhile College Rosemont has decided it will no longer rent facilities to the CCIEM because the Centre will not agree to conform to the Cegep's rules.
"For us it was important the Centre respect our rules, our code of conduct, the Centre said we will respect it but only when we are inside the College, said Stephane Godbout, the Cegep's director. "We tried to negotiate so their activites could restart but unfortunately we didn't come to an agreement."
Charkaoui called the move illegal and says he plans to sue the school.
The CCIEM was initially cut off on Feb. 26 after its website posted a link to a video that insulted and attacked various religious groups.
Charkaoui, a Moroccan-born Montreal educator, lived under tight restrictions for several years after Ottawa accused him of being a terrorist. He was never charged.
After the Federal Court lifted the restrictions in 2009, Charkaoui sued Ottawa. He has since become a Canadian citizen.
