Samir Abdelgadir, alleged drug trafficker convicted for his role in the March 2020 kidnapping, says real victim is himself.

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When the young teen was grabbed from outside his North York home, thrown into a Jeep and held for 36 terrifying hours to recoup the $4 million in cocaine that his brother had stolen, the blindfolded boy thought he was going to die.

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“And that feeling hasn’t left me,” he said in his victim impact statement.

“I still can’t believe that someone wanted me dead/hurt at all. At that age, I didn’t even think I could die! I went from feeling young and free to just tainted and dying,” he wrote.

But Samir Abdelgadir, the alleged drug trafficker convicted for his role in the March 2020 kidnapping, says the real victim here is himself.

“I suffered a lot, mentally. I keep getting charged and harassed by police officers for things I never do,” Abdelgadir, 44, told Superior Court Justice Sandra Nishikawa, sniffling as he stood in........

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