Suspended because he did not decree number 728

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Stéfanie Trudeau had testified last July by the police ethics commission. She had then talked about the “social chaos” that reigned in 2012 to justify his actions.

Matthew Payen

Tuesday, October 3, 2017 13:16

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An ex-partner of Stéfanie Trudeau, aka badge number 728, has been suspended two days without pay for not to be intervened in order to put a stop to arrest muscular of the former police officer.

Agent Constantino Samaras may want to the famous police officer, now retired, with whom he has teamed up in full spring maple.

In the night of 20 may 2012, Julian Menezes, was returning from a wedding with his wife and a friend. Coming out of a taxi in the borough of Plateau-Mont-Royal, he saw the two officers to submit a finding of a violation of a cyclist.

Mr. Menezes has decided to stay and serve as a witness in the case where the cyclist would like to contest the fine.

Red square

But the exchanges were tense between the friends group and the police after a comment by Stéfanie Trudeau on the red square worn by the cyclist.

Number 728 was then put to Mr. Menezes in a state of arrest, under the pretext that he smelled of alcohol. She grabbed the young man was tackled to the ground, handcuffed and shoved him into the police car, wounding him in the ankle.

During the trip, the police treated Mr. Menezes for ” fucking Indian “, before threatening to throw him in jail.

The young man was eventually filed by the police without money miles from home.

Photo Hugo Duchaine

Julian Menezes, Victim

Complaint

Shortly after, he filed a complaint with the police ethics Commissioner.

The agent Samaras comes to be blamed for ” failure to intervene to stop the breach of professional ethics of the officer Stéfanie Trudeau “.

Ms. Trudeau is accused of having the light of offensive comments based on ethnicity, to have used excessive force and have illegally detained Mr. Menezes.

The police was known as “badge Number 728,” after being filmed pepper of the protesters. This scene, which had made the tour of the world was held a few hours after the arrest of Mr Menezes.

Last year, Ms. Trudeau has appealed his conviction for assault on musician Serge Lavoie, to whom she had applied a decision of the neck, before the process of ” guitarist guitar “. It had been suspended shortly after the facts. It was set to retire in 2015 at age 43.