Legal stories du jour
Félix Tremblay, a young man without a criminal history who agreed to bump off 14 gang enemies for a fee, was sentenced to more than 18 years this week in the deaths of Justice Owusu Tajudeen, Christopher‑Shawn Jean Vilsaint and Noël Garcia Frias.
The last named was killed not because of any gang affiliation but because he was driving the same model of car as one of Tremblay’s targets. More on the complicated plot last month in La Presse.
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A man who had sexually abused his four stepchildren for years was sentenced to seven years this week, decades later.
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The driver who killed seven-year-old Mariia Legenkovska near her school three years ago has been partially exonerated by a coroner’s report this week, saying he had been confused by a GPS detour due to the closure of the Lafontaine tunnel, and semi‑blinded by the low December sun. Juan Manuel Becerra Garcia was sentenced to a year’s house arrest, back in spring 2024.
Nicholas 15:27 on 2025-11-28 Permalink
Lots of interesting details in the story on the coroner’s report. It suggests governments could better coordinate with mapping apps to push people away from residential areas when there are detours. But apps send you through residential areas even without detours; why would they listen? If you instead make those areas dead-end loops for driving then no one will drive there except locals.