The facilitator Martin Pouliot formally accused of driving while impaired

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Martin Pouliot at the outlet of the central Victoria park, Monday morning.

Kathleen Frenette

Sunday, 1 October, 2017 19:20

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Monday, October 2, 2017 16:21

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The moderator and columnist Martin Pouliot remained of the ice when he was brought before the judge to be formally charged.

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Handcuffed, Pouliot has made its entry in the box of the accused without the display of emotion. Man of 46 years had rather the air of wanting to get it over with quickly, responding to a brief and brittle the president of the Court.

Officially, he was accused of driving while impaired, driving with over 80 mg of alcohol per 100 ml of blood and dangerous driving causing bodily harm to a woman of 37 years old.

To regain his freedom, he had to deposit the sum of $ 1,000 to the clerk of the Court, and his twin brother, Thierry, is committed, under signature, for an amount of $5,000.

It will also adhere to a curfew from 22 h to 6 h and to deposit his driving license. He will be back before the Court on November 17. As for his links he maintained with BLVD and LCN, they have been broken on the field.

While the accused was under its spell, the victim, a mother who worked as a driver for the réseau de transport de la Capitale (RTC) was fighting it to reclaim a part of his life.

Conscious following the accident that occurred in the early morning while she was returning home after her shift, she was transported to the hospital of the Child Jesus, where she was operated on emergency.

Friday, the lady will turn up again on the operating table to undergo an intervention to the hip. “She suffers a lot. It does not have the right to drink, to eat, and she can’t move”, he continued. According to him, if his wife recovers physically, she will remain marked forever.

Violent collision

Remember that Sunday, the police Department of the City of Quebec had indicated that they had carried in the night from Saturday to Sunday in 2h08, with the arrest of a man of 46 years, following a violent collision occurred in the area of Neufchatel in Quebec city.

The collision involving two vehicles, including the SUV Audi Q5, occurred shortly after 2 a.m., Sunday, in the area of Neufchatel, in Quebec city.

Photo Agence QMI, Guy Martel

The collision involving two vehicles, including the SUV Audi Q5, occurred shortly after 2 a.m., Sunday, in the area of Neufchatel, in Quebec city.

Later in the day, the radio station BLVD, where Pouliot was a columnist this fall, has confirmed that it was indeed the facilitator.

In the same breath, the director of programmes, Dan Caron, has made it known that it had been “decided to put an end to his collaborations with Martin Pouliot”, could one read on the web site of BLVD.

“This is unacceptable, this guy can not be a columnist in my program. For me, it is zero tolerance”, for its part, responded to the facilitator’s Sophie Durocher.

Pouliot was also a columnist for the issuance of Denis Levesque at TVA.

Let us recall that in the night from Saturday to Sunday, the victim was riding on the boulevard Johnny-Parent branch is at the edge of a Mazda sedan when she was struck at the intersection of the boulevard Saint-Jacques.

The driver of the other vehicle, an SUV, Audi Q5, was travelling north on St-Jacques. According to a witness interviewed by the police, the suspect would have burned a red light.

During his transport to the hospital the Child Jesus, the lady was conscious and she was operated urgently.

She was in a stable condition, according to the latest health bulletin.

– With the collaboration of Catherine Bouchard, Dominique Lelievre and Martin Lavoie

What he has already said about drinking and driving

“Personally, the attitude to adopt is quite simple, if you are driving, the wood just not. Seems to Me that it is self-evident. ”

“I myself was caught in a roadblock there are nearly eight months of it, and you should have seen my amazement. Would like it still exists ? It was the second time in 25 years as a driver. ”

“If one has never the impression that we’re going to take in relation to alcohol and driving, there will always be people who will take the chances. ”

“It seems to me that we have this discussion here after all the years together. Stop thinking that it is by changing the law we are going to change the behaviour. The only way to change behaviour […] it is only to force education, force of osmosis, to force, to rub to a certain discourse, a certain awareness. ”

“When it’s your server bar who comes to see you, and you said : “You have drunk too much, I can’t give you your keys”, this is not the same thing. You don’t have the same reaction because he sees what you have drank, you, it’s been a long time that you stopped to see it. [..] I don’t know about you, but for me it happens to me. ”