Drama marriage in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield: Alain Castonguay accused of the premeditated murder of his wife

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A photo of Alain Castonguay, published last may on Facebook by Johanne Chayer. “A picture of my lover. I love you my love “, she wrote.

Valerie Gonthier

Thursday, 5 October 2017 23:47

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SALABERRY-DE-VALLEYFIELD | It is in front of his two daughters deeply alarmed that a man in his seventies was accused Thursday of premeditated murder of their mother.

Alain Castonguay has appeared by video conferencing to face five charges of murder and attempted murder in relation to the tragedy that occurred on the night of Wednesday.

Nervously, he stood in front of the camera, live from the police station of the Sûreté du Québec. As soon as it appeared on the screens hanging in the courtroom, his loved ones gathered in a same row broke out in sobs.

Premeditated murder

The white hair in battle, the 72 year old man was dressed in a white suit that the police usually provide in the case of homicide, when the clothing of a suspect is seized for analysis.

Castonguay is facing the most serious charge in the criminal Code, premeditated murder. His wife Johanne Chayer has been found deceased in their residence, early Wednesday. Before that, the accused had taken the police breath for more than four hours.

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Johanne Chayer
Victim

Attempted murder

The police had just received an emergency call to an altercation between a man and a woman. But on their arrival, the first patrol officers were greeted by gunfire.

One of them was injured at the basin level. He had to be operated on for internal injuries important, but it does not fear for his life. Castonguay is accused of attempted murder in the place of four police officers.

Divorced since 1994, Alain Castonguay and Johanne Chayer were a couple again recently. Last June, the wife of 65 years, moved in with his ” fiancé “, as she wrote on his page Facebook this summer.

“It’s our little love nest for me and my fiance. I am filled with gratitude to live it. I thank life “, she wrote on the 1st of August.

She was visibly a second chance at her former husband, after a long period of separation. But the investigation would have revealed that a “history of violence” existed between the couple.