Quebec Premier-Elect almost assassinated

[Kang]

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Politics.../20170821.html

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Marois might have been assassination target: Cops
By Brian Daly, QMI Agency


MONTREAL — Police say Quebec’s premier-elect, Pauline Marois, might have been the intended target of a gunman who shot and killed a stagehand during Marois’ victory speech Tuesday night.

Lieut. Guy Lapointe of the provincial police force said investigators haven't ruled out an assassination attempt by a 62-year-old man dressed in black and wearing a dark cape.

QMI Agency has learned the suspect is a fishing-lodge owner named Richard Henry Bain.

“At this stage of the investigation, it is impossible to exclude the possibility that the person who was targeted was the premier-elect,” Lapointe told reporters near the Metropolis club where the shooting occurred just before midnight.

“About 15 witnesses have been met by investigators.”

Bain has no criminal record. He was taken to hospital Wednesday morning with breathing problems and police said they had not had a chance to interview him.


Marois, leader of the separatist Parti Quebecois, was expected to have more to say at an afternoon news conference.

A friend of Bain’s, who didn't give his name, said Bain owns a fishing lodge in La Conception, Que., about two hours north of Montreal.

The website boasts of a “crystal clear lake, surrounded by towering pines” that’s “stocked with trout for exceptional fishing.”

The friend says Bain has recently been seeing a doctor in Montreal to deal with mental issues.

Police maintained a security perimeter Wednesday around a black SUV near the Metropolis club, and a large red gas canister could be seen next to the vehicle.

Police said the suspect opened fire as he tried to barge into the club just as Marois was concluding her remarks. He shot two men, set fire to the rear entrance and was tackled and arrested, police said. An automatic weapon was seized, along with another firearm.

Inside, bodyguards hustled Marois off the stage during her nationally televised speech before hundreds of supporters.

The dead man was a 45-year-old stage technician who worked for the nightclub. Police have not identified him but his nephew, Sebastien Bourgeault, said his uncle tried to stop the gunman and prevented further carnage.

“He died as a hero for the premier,” Bourgeault told QMI Agency on Wednesday. “He left behind his daughter, his little three-year-old daughter. I hope the premier recognizes this and that there will be gestures to thank him for all this.”

A second stagehand, aged 26, was shot and injured and a third man was treated for shock.

Marois won a minority government on Tuesday, becoming the first female premier in Quebec’s history.

CANADIAN POLITICAL VIOLENCE

April 7, 1868

Montreal MP Thomas D'Arcy McGee, a Father of Confederation, is gunned down in Ottawa. James Patrick Whelan, a tailor, is tried, convicted and hanged for the murder.

October-December 1970

FLQ terrorists kidnap Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte and British trade representative James Cross. Laporte is later found murdered and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau invokes the War Measures Act, suspending civil liberties and sending troops to Montreal and Ottawa.

May 8, 1984

Disgruntled ex-soldier Denis Lortie walks into the Quebec legislature and opens fire with a sub-machine gun, killing three people and wounding 13.

April 20, 1995

A pipe bomb detonates outside the Prince Edward Island legislature, injuring a bystander who was struck by shrapnel.

June 2006

Eighteen Muslim-Canadian men and youths are arrested after police say they uncovered a plot to storm Parliament, behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper and explode bombs near the CN Tower, the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Pickering, Ont. nuclear plant.

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Oh those Quebec separatists, always good for a laugh.

[Gadritan]

a 62-year-old man dressed in black and wearing a dark cape.

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[hey]

I think this belongs in poopdead. or since it's quebec, random news would be fine too.

[Dimmauk]

I bet Obama planned this. The assassin's last name is Bain, and when you think of Bain you think of Romney, so now everyone will think Romney is an assassin.

[Xno Kappa]

And ya was all up on your high mooses popping off all dat bullshit. Ya eat a dick nigga!

[Churchill]

UGH!!!

Can we just fucking ban guns in Canada already?!

[Xno Kappa]

Would've never happened if they just enforced the laws tehy already have!

[Ratatapa]

Picture of the shooter

http://www.lametropole.com/assets/ap...eattentat2.jpg

But yeah 2012 still has sexist people

[Lucavi]

Not what I was expecting... you hear about a cape and your mind just wanders...