The trials to follow in 2023

Lengthening court delays will be the topic to watch in courthouses in 2023, when many motions to halt the judicial process under the Jordan decision will have to be decided. Several trials will also make headlines, including at least two on alleged femicides that shocked Quebec in 2021.

Alexandre Boudreau-Chartrand

Andréanne Ouellet, 32 and mother of five, was killed in her home in Saint-Donat in September 2021. Her spouse, Alexandre Boudreau-Chartrand, is charged with second degree murder and is due to have his trial by jury from the September 11, 2023 at the Joliette courthouse. Neighbors have described their relationship as “toxic”. The marital context of this murder will certainly be dissected during the trial.

Brandon McIntyre

Another trial on a possible femicide: the murder of Rebekah Harry in March 2021. The 29-year-old woman was allegedly punched to death by her spouse in a dwelling in the borough of LaSalle, in Montreal. The man, Brandon McIntyre, faces a charge of second degree murder. His jury trial is scheduled for May 15 at the Montreal courthouse.

Ali Ngarukiye

The story had shocked Quebec in January 2021: a citizen without history, Mamadi Camara, had been unjustly accused of having tried to kill police officer Sanjay Vig, of the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM), before be cleared all the way. Arrested a few months later for the attempted murder of the policeman, Ali Ngarukiye must have his trial by jury in September 2023. The mental state of the accused risks being at the heart of this case.

Mario Roy, Steve Charland and Co.

Several members of a group of opponents to health measures, the Farfadaas, must have a 10-day criminal trial from January 9. Mario Roy, André Desfossés, Tommy Rioux, Steeve Charland and Karol Tardif are accused of mischief for having blocked the Louis-Hippolyte-La Fontaine tunnel on the sidelines of a demonstration against health measures in March 2021. The trial is likely to be rich in twists and turns since the defendants represent themselves without a lawyer.

Paul Zaidan

Who kidnapped Nicholas Tsouflidis, president of the restaurant chain Chez Cora, in March 2017? Was he even really kidnapped, as the defense suggested at the first trial? As the jury failed to reach a unanimous verdict, Paul Zaidan’s trial fell through last February. The second trial of the ex-franchisee of Chez Cora is scheduled for April 2023 at the Laval courthouse.

Adele Sorella

Ten years after her first trial, Adèle Sorella will be tried for the third time in September 2023, since the Court of Appeal overturned her guilty verdict. Adèle Sorella is accused of the second degree murder of her 8 and 9 year old daughters, who died in mysterious circumstances in 2009 in Laval. According to the Crown, their mother killed them by asphyxiation in a hyperbaric chamber. Adèle Sorella is the spouse of mafioso Giuseppe De Vito, who died of cyanide poisoning in prison in 2013.

Koceila Louali

Nicknamed Master K, Koceila Louali is said to have had eight victims between 2012 and 2021. He faces serious charges: sexual assault, pimping and production and distribution of child pornography. He is also accused of having assaulted a 7-year-old child in Laval and of having concluded an “arrangement” with a woman in order to attack this child. His trial is scheduled for September 2023 at the Montreal courthouse.