“He pushed his right hand to my crotch, under my dress.” One of the plaintiffs in the story of a bachelor party that allegedly ended in sexual assault and aggravated assault in September 2022 reported on Monday the acts that allegedly set off the cascade of events triggered.
The sexual assault trial of Martin Roussin-Bizier and the aggravated assault of Patrick Toussaint opened Monday at the Quebec City courthouse.
Martin Roussin-Bizier is accused of sexual assault over a bachelor party that ended badly on September 11, 2022. His friend Patrick Toussaint is accused of serious coercion in this case. Credit; Pierre-Paul Biron, Journal de Québec Pierre-Paul Biron
Patrick Toussaint is charged with aggravated assault for a bachelorette party that ended badly on September 11, 2022. His friend Martin Roussin Bizier is accused of sexual abuse in this case. Credit; Pierre-Paul Biron, Journal de Québec Pierre-Paul Biron
The two friends celebrated Roussin-Bizier’s bachelor party on the night of September 10th to 11th, 2022.
According to the Crown, Martin Roussin-Bizier allegedly touched two young women who were taking photos with him while he was dressed as women. Then a friend of the two alleged victims confronted the defendant. While trying to hit him in the face, Patrick Toussaint hit him hard on the head with a metal stick.
Touched in the crotch
The first witness to be heard, one of the two young complainants who was celebrating her birthday that evening, came to describe the measures that Martin Roussin-Bizier had allegedly taken against her.
According to her report, she was on a sidewalk with her partner, waiting for a group of friends. The two defendants arrived at the crime scene accompanied by a third person. A friendly conversation begins and the idea quickly arises of taking a photo with the future groom dressed as a woman. The latter apparently insisted that the young woman “touch her fake breasts.”
Screenshot – Video submitted as evidence
“For the photo, he put his arm behind me, with his hand on my thigh, right on my skin. He raised his hand and grabbed my right buttock,” the young adult said with emotion. “He slid his hand to my crotch, very close to my vagina.”
Frozen, the complainant said on Monday that she had closed her fists to suppress “the screaming, the crying.”
In a video of the moment the photographic evidence was taken, we see the young woman clenching her fist, but without seeing what is happening behind her.
“I didn’t agree at all.”
After the photo, her partner continued to chat with Martin Roussin-Bizier’s two friends. The latter would have used the opportunity to touch her breast.
“I took a step back and he said, ‘I have the right to it because you touched it earlier,'” she testified, referring to the disguise’s fake breasts. ‘accused.
“That doesn’t give him the right. I didn’t agree at all.
Later that evening, when the young woman talked to friends about what happened, she said she learned that one of her friends had had a similar experience with Roussin-Bizier. That’s when a friend allegedly started stalking the trio of partygoers.
When she saw that friend again, he was sitting on a bench with a bloody face, she tearfully told Judge Sarah-Julie Chicoine.
Violent blow to the head
In a video submitted as evidence and filmed by a witness, the images of which have already been published on social networks, it is clear to see what led to the young man’s injuries.
Visibly angry about what allegedly happened, but also tipsy, the young complainant tries to attack Martin Roussin-Bizier, but is restrained by Patrick Toussaint, who tells him to “calm down.”
Screenshot – Video submitted as evidence
At some point the young man manages to free himself from Toussaint and attacks the man, who was dressed as a woman that evening, hitting him in the face with his right hand. There, Patrick Toussaint hit him violently on the head with a metal stick used in his friend’s disguise.
The video shows the victim falling violently to the ground and the suspects fleeing the scene.
Scheduled for 6 days
The trial of the two friends from the Thetford Mines area is scheduled to last six days.
In particular, the Crown must give a voice to the second alleged sexual assault victim, alongside the young man who received the blow to the head.
Martin Roussin-Bizier is charged with two counts of sexual assault, while Patrick Toussaint is charged with aggravated assault.
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