A rapper managed to film a menacing video clip within the walls of the Sorel-Tracy detention center, even though prisoners behind bars are not allowed to have cell phones.
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Yahya Mouhime, who uses the stage name VT, was sentenced to 18 months in prison last June, a little less than a month after he stabbed a man in the lung before stealing his watch, wallet and iPhone in the Le Garage parking lot had stolen from a stripper bar in Mirabel.
However, prison did not stop him from posting a video clip titled “Sadly Famous” on his YouTube channel on Saturday. In the video shot in the cell, we can see how the rapper and his altar boys play the role of dancers swaying to a song with threatening words.
At the beginning of the video we can hear an excerpt from columnist Sophie Durocher commenting on Mr Mouhime's case. “I will never be able to be overtaken. I will never be able to be beaten up. Try it and you will pass,” the rapper continues, before miming a gun firing at the camera with a bonus sound effect.
The song has garnered more than 50,000 views in two days.
However, this publication raises questions, including those of the former police officer specializing in organized crime, André Gélinas.
“How is it that people, no matter who, can have access to cell phones in prison? “This calls into question the whole security aspect because if these people are able to obtain and bring cell phones, that obviously opens the door to narcotics or weapons or all kinds of tools or things that can compromise security,” he commented to TVA Nouvelles.
The Ministry of Public Security (MSP) has confirmed that it is investigating the broadcast of this video clip. However, prison authorities refused to say whether they were able to recover the mobile phone or whether they intend to impose a sanction against the inmate if necessary.
For his part, the president of the Union of Peace Officers in Correctional Services of Quebec, Mathieu Lavoie, told TVA Nouvelles that the sanctions applied against prisoners who are in possession of a cell phone are insufficient.
– With information from Kevin Crane-Desmarais, TVA Nouvelles