Thomas Christian Zaugg had a few things he wanted to get off his chest — mostly about the firing of Don Cherry.
The 33-year-old Toronto man was arrested and charged Friday in the shocking vandalism of the cenotaph at Old City Hall discovered the day after Remembrance Day.
The words “Ye broke faith” had been spray-painted on the front of the monument and “with us” on the back.
The words are in reference to the storied John McRae First World War poem In Flanders Fields.
Zaugg was charged with one count of mischief under $5,000 and one count of mischief – interfere with property. He was released on $750 bail Friday.
The Crown expressed concerns about Zaugg’s mental state and the judge agreed, ordering him to undergo counselling.
In one outburst, after referencing Henry VIII, Zaugg told the court: “Apologies to the court if I interrupted the fast-food assembly-line justice system we have here.”
But in a Facebook post on Wednesday, he took a little hair of the Zaugg and claimed he did it all for the fired Don Cherry.”
Zaugg was particularly unhappy with Toronto Mayor John Tory and Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie, who he claimed threw Cherry under the bus.
He labelled them “gutless cowards.”
“You could have just as easily have stood up for Veterans and the forces by standing up for Don Cherry and clarifying what he was trying to say, instead of capitulating to a Twitter mob,” Zaugg wrote on his Facebook page.
“If you were stronger moral leaders for our cities, I would not have been compelled to do this act in order to make the political statement perfectly clear.”
Tory slammed the vandalism as “disgraceful.”
In a video posted to Facebook, Zaugg said a number of veterans and soldiers he spoke with gave his actions “their blessing.”
Zaugg, who is reportedly studying to be a paralegal, is scheduled to return to court on Dec. 20.
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