Arrest made in UW poster debacle

It was revealed midday on Monday that Waterloo Regional Police had made an arrest Sunday after a series of posters and emails were circulated under the title “The Truth” since February.

34-year-old Zamir Nathoo of Kitchener, a graduate of the University of Waterloo, was arrested on charges of criminal harassment, personation with intent and mischief to property. He is being held pending a bail hearing.

The first posters, depicting Nobel Prize-winning physicist Marie Curie and a mushroom cloud with a caption disputing that women should be in positions of power, appeared on the University of Waterloo campus during the Federation of Students election campaign this winter.

In the months since, a steady stream of emails were circulated with similar messages from anonymous email accounts in the names of historical figures, most recently, Benito Mussolini.

The Cord will follow this story as it continues to develop.