The Quebec City Police Service (SPVQ) is analyzing new information in connection with an old investigation involving Gatineau Olympiques players.
Updated yesterday at 11:29 p.m.
At least that’s what the Bloc Québécois spokesperson for Sports, Sébastien Lemire, said on Thursday evening.
The latter had questioned the commissioner of the Major Junior League of Quebec (LHJMQ) during his visit to the standing committee of the House of Commons, last July, to study the involvement of Hockey Canada in a case of allegations of aggression. crimes committed in 2018.
The question of this former SPVQ investigation into Gatineau Olympiques players was then brought back to the table. “He replied that ‘an investigation had already taken place in this file'”, recalls Sébastien Lemire.
Remember that the alleged facts concerned by this investigation took place in 2014, in a hotel room in Quebec. A young woman from Trois-Rivières was allegedly the victim of a gang rape perpetrated by four Gatineau Olympiques players.
Four players potentially involved
In an article from Sun published in 2015, the alleged victim indicated that he went to the Trois-Rivières police to file a complaint a year after the events.
The investigation was transferred to the SPVQ, then closed since there was no criminal element allowing the police to lay charges. La Trifluvienne complained at the time that the SPVQ had “not taken it seriously. »
“However, if the Police Department shows interest in reopening this investigation, we will certainly collaborate in the investigation,” Gilles Courteau indicated last July, still according to Sébastien Lemire.
The Bloc member therefore informed the SPVQ of this declaration and said that he had received “afterwards an acknowledgment of receipt confirming that the information was sent to the investigators responsible for analysis”.
“We are aware that the police are considering reopening this investigation and we will offer our full cooperation during these proceedings,” QMJHL marketing director Karl Jahnke told reporter Rick Westhead, who first reported the remarks. by Sebastien Lemire.
The Press was unable to reach the SPVQ about this Thursday evening.
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