The mayor of Montreal finds the information that a paralyzed woman was left on a sidewalk by police officers in Ahuntsic at the end of September “unfortunate.”
Posted at 10:42 am.
The situation, reported by La Presse on Tuesday morning, is the subject of an investigation by the Bureau of Independent Investigations (BEI), the police force.
“The information published this morning in La Presse is regrettable,” said a written statement from Valérie Plante’s office. “No one should be left to fend for themselves and left on the sidewalk under these conditions. »
The woman at the center of this story, whom La Presse is not naming, was arrested in the middle of the afternoon that day in front of her child’s school. In the patrol car, she told police that she could no longer feel her limbs. He then forcibly took her out of the patrol car and placed her on the sidewalk in front of the HLM, where she lives.
According to six eyewitnesses, the woman remained paralyzed on the sidewalk for several dozen minutes before paramedics arrived. They told La Presse that they were concerned about the situation.
“We do not have all the details of how events unfolded,” Valérie Plante’s office said. “The Office of Independent Investigations (BEI) is handling the case. Several questions deserve to be clarified in order to shed full light on the circumstances of the event. »