Concerned to the point of not sleeping, he shoots a thief

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Bernard Corbeil
Accused

Kathleen Frenette

Tuesday, 27-feb-2018 16:45

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Tuesday, 27-feb-2018 23:14

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On the second day of his trial, the former lawyer in civil law Bernard Corbeil has started his defence, and he offered his explanation to the Court for arrest a citizen that he has done in 2013, following a ” flight of eats cat “.

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Just as during his first trial, Bernard Corbeil is presented to the Court, Tuesday, with a multitude of documents.

The man is hoping to demonstrate to the judge Hubert Couture that he was right, in February 2013, to arrest a citizen of the mother of his camelot, when he saw that the food he put on her door to feed the cats in the neighborhood disappeared in a mysterious way, and she was the one who stole.

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The ex-lawyer Bernard Corbeil is charged with assault for having conducted an “arresting citizen” in February 2013.

Thus, Corbeil told the Court that they had installed a camera “connected by 50 feet of thread” in his computer to be able to put a face on the thief.

“If I am given this condition, it is because I was worried “, the man said to the magistrate attentive.

“I was so much so that I slept more, and all morning I was watching on my computer screen to see who was stealing the food,” he added.

“Arrest safe “

In a document of 56 pages, he also explained ” have it all prepared to make an arrest safe.” Search on the Internet, verification of articles of laws and exchange of e-mails have been part of the process préarrestation.

“As a lawyer, I told myself that I needed to make a reasonable search for an arrest to be reasonable, and for a theft, the test of reasonable force is that it is not necessary to strike the thief or cause bodily harm “, he mentioned.

Recall that, following a first trial, Bernard Corbeil has been found guilty of assault, then he received an absolute discharge. After he had carried his cause by appeal, the judges have given him reason, and they have ordered a second trial.