A second New Brunswick youth has been placed under a terrorism peace bond after being accused of involvement in terrorist activities linked to the online extremist group 764 Network, Canada’s federal police service says.
The youth appeared in Fredericton Provincial Youth Court on Feb. 18 on allegations of using social media to advocate for the violent ideology of 764, a group recently added to Canada’s list of terrorist entities.
“The youth is believed to have been actively extorting victims to self-harm, making threats to schools in the province and in the United States, and to have been producing and distributing online material with the aim of gaining notoriety for the 764 Network,” the RCMP said in a Feb. 19 press release.
The youth is now subject to strict conditions under the authority of the terrorism peace bond, police said.
The case is not related to a separate incident from earlier this month in which a youth was placed under the same type of bond, the RCMP has confirmed.
The New Brunswick youth in the earlier case was arrested in late 2025 on suspicion of facilitating terrorist activity, the RCMP said in a Feb. 4 press release. RCMP described the young person as “radicalized” and said the teen had been placed under the authority of a terrorism peace bond.
The designation marked the first in New Brunswick history, police said at the time.
A terrorism peace bond can be used when investigators have concerns that an individual’s actions might lead to a terrorist offence. It enables police to implement “robust monitoring and de-escalation tools,” the press release said.
Although the RCMP did not publicly link the first teen to the 764 Network, it said the second youth charged was suspected to have ties to the terrorist entity. Neither teen is being named as mandated by the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
764 is a decentralized transnational network of online nihilistic violent extremists, whose core beliefs are rooted in a hatred of humanity, according to Public Safety Canada’s terrorist list. The group rejects all forms of religious, moral, and social values and pushes the belief that life is meaningless.
The network is known for its targeting of children and adolescents, often coercing them into capturing and distributing intimate images or participating in self-harm, violent acts, and cruelty toward animals, the government agency said.
‘Broader Trend’
Police said the cases tie in with a broader trend of youth radicalization observed by the Eastern Region National Security Enforcement Section (ER NSES), a specialized unit within the RCMP. The unit focuses on investigating threats to national security, such as terrorism, espionage, and foreign interference.
“This investigation highlights the threat of exposure to extremist online spaces and in peer-to-peer networks,” ER NSES Insp. Aaron Glode said in the Feb. 19 press release.
“Be aware of who your children are talking to online and take note if they start to become more private or withdrawn.”
Police say there are multiple groups that make up the online network known as “The Com,” an online community known to have extreme ideological views with a focus on desensitizing and radicalizing young people to violence.
“The Com” network targets vulnerable children and youth between the ages of eight and 17, often through “very accessible online spaces” such as social media platforms, chatting apps like Discord and Telegram, livestreaming services like Twitch, and popular online games like Roblox and Minecraft, the RCMP said on its website.
Predators employ grooming techniques that may involve forming trusting or romantic connections, or using power or coercive methods to persuade victims into engaging in severe violence, self-harm, or “gore” activities, the RCMP said.
“This almost always escalates over time, but can also increase rapidly,” the website reads. “The predator influences the child or youth into conducting acts that increasingly shame, incriminate, or isolate them, making them vulnerable to further exploitation.”
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