Representative image of journalist Arrest. Image credit: Pixaby
Gatineau/CMEDIA: Two police officers with the Service de police de la Ville de Gatineau have been suspended for allegedly violating two articles of the code of ethics that governs police officers in Quebec when they arrested Radio-Canada journalists Antoine Trépanier in 2018 while he was investigating a source for a story.
The police ethics boardverdict was delivered on Mondy by the administrative judge Benoît McMahon by imposing a 10-day suspension on Sgt. Mathieu La Salle Boudria and a 12-day suspension on Lt. Paul Lafontaine.
The board found last December that the officers involved in the arrest did an incomplete investigation and abused their authority.
In a public decision, it criticized Boudria for his inexpert investigation. The police also found Lafontaine had approved the arrest despite knowing his colleague had taken shortcuts.
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