Following the recent news that reporter Daniel Renaud had a price placed on his head by a gangster, La Presse talked to retired journalist Jean‑Pierre Charbonneau, who was shot in Le Devoir’s newsroom in 1973 because of his reports on organized crime. This piece also harks back to the shooting of crime reporter Michel Auger in the Journal parking lot in 2000 – still not solved – but they can’t interview Auger because he died in 2020 of an unrelated condition.
François Cardinal writes a bracing editorial refusing intimidation, and Paul Arcand also looks back at the uses of fear.
We’re fortunate to live in a place where events like this happen every 25 years or so and are condemned by the government. In some places, they happen all the time.
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