“History of crimes”: The Journal launches a weekly podcast recorded in the heart of its archives room

0

What stories from the legal world and news items caught our attention over the past week?

In History of crimesa brand new weekly podcast recorded in the heart of the archives room of the Newspaperour journalists on the ground take you behind the scenes of covering these stories.

  • Listen to the interview with Valérie Gonthier, business journalist at Journal de Montréal, via QUB :

It will also be about a crime story that marked its time, taken directly from our archives.

Femicide

For the first episode, journalist Maxime Deland explains the behind the femicide that occurred in Saint-Basile-le-Grand, in Montérégie, at the beginning of the week.

Four ruined lives

Then, journalist Valérie Gonthier returns to the trial of the trucker found guilty of criminal negligence after taking four lives on Highway 440 in Laval in the summer of 2019.

Acquitted of the murder of his partner

For his part, veteran journalist Stéphane Alarie goes back in time by recounting the legal saga surrounding the former Radio-Canada director, Gilles Perron, who was acquitted of the murder of his wife in 1992.

Aborted investigation

Finally, court reporter Michael Nguyen recounts the behind-the-scenes story of an aborted investigation into an auto theft story, a particularly hot topic these days.

AND AT YOUR HOME ?

Is your municipality often the target of car thieves?

Find out on this map compiled by our Investigation Office, which allows you to locate street level, in certain cities, where thousands of vehicles have been stolen in Quebec since the start of the year.

Municipality (number of flights)

Number of flights to the same address

Methodology

This map of vehicle thefts in Quebec covers the year 2023, from January 1 to a date between June 30 and October 12, depending on the city.

The data comes from the Sûreté du Québec, the police service of the City of Montreal, the city of Laval, the city of Longueuil, the police service of the City of Gatineau, the police service of the city of Quebec , from the police service of the city of Lévis, from the police service of Sherbrooke, from the city of Blainville, from the police service of Châteauguay, from the police service from the city of Mascouche, from the city of Granby, from the city of Trois-Rivières, the police department of the city of Bromont, the police department of Lac des Deux-Montagnes, the police department of Memphrémagog, the police department of the city of Saint-Eustache, the police of Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, the city of Repentigny, the city of Mirabel, and Équité Association. Some were obtained through access to information.

Note that municipalities may have included vehicles such as motorcycles, trucks or boats in their balance sheet. As for location data, it was transmitted to us in different forms: postal code, street corner, street or neighborhood.

Data compilation: Nora T. Lamontagne and Philippe Langlois, Bureau of Investigation


source site-64